please tell me were you got these facts? Since the most decorated german pilot was a tank killer ju87 pilot over 600 kills alone of tanks, and russians had many pilots with 500 kills plus of tanks, never seen german comment damn be afraid of sherman but seen many comments il2 is a flying tank.
It's an established fact.
Strafing armoured vehicles were vastly ineffective compared to bombs and rockets, and lobbing ordnance itself was also vastly inefficient compared to taking them out with proper countermeasures on the ground. IIRC only 5 out of every 100 rockets fired ever found their target in real life(or something like that.)
Anti tank guns and other tanks, were the most effective way of dealing with tanks. Rudel was a freak of nature, and using his jaw-dropping accomplishments for analyzing effectiveness of A2G runs against tanks is like the Stahanov Movement.
Also, the Ju87Gs and IL-2, HS-129s and such were highly specialized planes specifically designed to take out tanks at low-altitude attacks. With the exception these handful of specialized planes, the "normal" fighterbombers were vastly inefficient in dealing with enemy tanks. The fighterbombers went after what made the tanks run - fuel stores, resupply lines, railways, bridges, and etc etc., not the tanks themselves.
Tony Williams has had discussions with us in the past in the A/V forums, about this very issue, and that's what he pointed out.
