Mommy, Mommy, big bad plane shot my tank ;)

[CptTrips]

With all the whining about the 1c cannon against armor, it reminded me of a passage from a book: “Scorched Earth” by Paul Carell.

Pg. 68

“German Luftwaffe was employing new ground-support aircraft fitted with anti-tank cannon.  They were employed as a kind of flying anti-tank artillery, pouncing from the sky at tanks like hawks pouncing on a chicken-yard.  Armored counter-attacks were thus shot up by the surprise intervention of these machines.  Getman’s Soviet tank corps had suffered most. TWELVE of its T-34s were knocked out within a very short period by JUST ONE of those flying tank-busters.
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Always from behind.  Tank after tank is knocked out by his cannon, the target spot being invariably its most vulnerable spot, the engine compartment where EACH HIT results in an instant explosion.  “


Now in fairness, these Stuka’s were sporting a single 37mm cannon.  However, I’d suspect that four 20mm Hispanos are prolly even better.  Especially when you consider that the PzIV we have has armor an order of magnitude thinner than the T-34s mentioned above.  All things being considered I think the 1C’s modeling is dead on.  Its effect on insufficiently supported armor is right what I'd expect.

In short, ...get over it.  

Wab


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[Citabria]

the 30mm should bounce off though, exploding before piercing the armor  

[RAM]

respectfully I must disagree.

PaK37 cannons used tungsten core rounds, with a impressive penetrating force, more even than 50mm guns on PanzerIII.

hispanos use AP round but not tungsten cored. Its AP power is good but not THAT good. Even at convergence ranges, they needed all ammo to do bad damage on a Panzer IV (as typhoons demonstrated over Normandy)-

here with a single F4U you can destroy 5 or 6 tanks with one ammo load. that, IMHO, is terribly wrong.
 

[Citabria]

so the low muzzle velocity 30mm HE round should wipe tanks out w 1 hit right?

nah I dinnae buy that.

I do buy into the 37mm tank destroyer gun doing this...
a ju87 taking out 12 tanks in one sortie.


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[RAM]

   

Originally posted by Citabria:
HAHAHAHAH

the LW conspiracy

oh yes citabria, oh wise man, how could I fall so low!!!

I guess that russians made Il2 because they wanted to get a funny design, having as they had already Spitfires with those armor ripping hispanos.

hey, why do USAAF use A10? it only has a 30mm gatling!! hey load it with 4 hispanos!! they are better than the uranium cored 30mm slugs!!!!
   

btw, incredible as it is, I agree with citabria on something.that Mk108, Those shells couldnt penetrate any armor...so that is wrong,too.



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[Citabria]

my appologies RAM, we are actually in total agreement  

30mm HE should bounce off
37mm should destroy with ease  
40mm equally devastating (hurri2d)  

[CptTrips]

>hispanos use AP round but not tungsten
>cored.

Point taken.  However, the real point is that you need to take into account that we're hitting PzIVs and not the much more heavily armored T-34.  It is not unreasonable that the four 20mm hispanos would have a similar effect on PzIVs as 37mm had on T-34s. They get eaten like cookies.

Thats why you need air cover.  Welcome to the world of combined arms warfare.  


BTW, me and another 1c pounded the crap out of a pz last night hitting long streams right on his bellybutton with no effect.  Took 3 1cs to finish him off.  I hadn't even been drinking yet.  So no sympathy here.  

Wab



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[RAM]

AKwabbit I dont say that a Hawg cant kill a tank, what I say is that in one single pass a F4U can kill 2 tanks with 2 bursts,and that is unrealistic from my point of view.
OTOH, I agree that 4 20mm have a lot of punch...but not THAT punch.

If they bring a Ju87G in AH with 2 37mm with 15 rpg, you can kill, say 5 or 6 if your gunnery is that of a master. With that gunnery in a F4U you can kill 9 or 10 tanks...and that is unveliable. There is no point on bringing Hs129 nor Il2 nor Ju87G in this game if those ubercannons can do the same,or better, work easier and safer.

And again I am doubtful that the hispanos had that punch. maybe they could kill a panzer, yes...but not with a short burst,but with a long one. If they could kill tanks so effectiverly with cannon, then why did they use rockets on them?...why bombs?...

lets get real...Hispanos have more punch than what they must have. so the A-G whining is fully understandable ,IMHO

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[CptTrips]

Ram,

If you got the penetration tables that prove that a 1c shouldn't be able to kill a panzer with a good 1 sec stream on target, send them to Pyro and I'm sure he will consider your data.  Otherwise, benefit of the doubt goes to the designers.  If you don't have the data, then its just opinion.  Opinions are like a*s holes: everybodys got one and most of them stink.  

Wab

[Pyro]

An armor piercing round from an AN-M2 will penetrate 1/2" of face hardened plate at a 30 degree angle from over 600 yards.  The top hull armor of the Panzer IV H is only 12mm(a little less than 1/2").  

Don't use the term "tank" generically.  A Panzer IV is not a T-34 or Panther or Tiger.  Even the much maligned Sherman has a lot thicker armor on top than the Panzer IV.  

There's a good reason why the Panzer IV is our first tank.  We're not a tank game and we're not going to put a tank in the game that can't be effectively suppressed when it doesn't have air cover.  In time, we'll put in heavier tanks along with more specialized anti-tank aircraft, but we're not there yet.

BTW, the Il-2 originally had a cannon armament of 2 20mm Shvaks.

If indeed there is a problem, and I'm not denying there could be one, don't whine about it, don't make exaggerations.  That only pulls attention away from the problem and towards the argument.  If you can pop tanks like water balloons, show me a film.  Make me say "oh that ain't right" rather than make me ascertain whether something is valid or just whining.  I don't have that much time in the day.  Thank you.



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[Hooligan]

RAM:

A PzIVh has 20mm of armor on the rear and 30mm of armor on the side.  This armor is hardly proof to Hispano AP rounds.  A 1943 T-model T-34 has 47mm - 60mm of sloped armor on the sides and rear.  If a Ju-87G carrying 30 rounds of 37mm can take out 12 T-34s, then an aircraft with 900 20mm Hispano rounds can take out a whole lot of PzIVh's.

There are a lot of tanks whose armor should be proof to Hispano's, but the PzIVh is not among them.

Hooligan

[Torque]

Time to open an AH Daycare.

[StSanta]

Pyro, I think I understand hwhere you are coming from.

But the thing is that at the moment, it is impossible to effectively protect yourself against flying C hogs or Spitfires. An M-16 is a yummy easy kill for most pilots and if there's two around, they really make short work of it. Both dive in, one gets fired at, breaks off, other finishes M-16 off.

Maybe the solution would be a quadruple 20mm armed version of the Panzer?

Preferrably armed with hispanos  



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[Maverick]

HHHMMMM, Seems to me that in the early days of the war (WW2) the main gun on a tank was, (starting out early mind you) a .30 cal MG, then later a 20mm gun, a 30 mm gun and finally into the bigger waepons. Things like 73mm, 85m, 88m then 90mm.

Up until later in the war troops were using a Brit weapon called a .50 cal Boys anti tank rifle against light armor. Bet it was hard for them to get a hit on the upper armor from the ground!

Pyro, I for one agree with your contention that 20mm's are plenty for taking out tanks. I spent a bit of time in them in my Army career.

Mav