Survivability of the P-47

[ian5440]

IMO, it seems the D11 lasts longer.

i actually think the 40 last longer, just an opinion,mainly because when im fighting a D11, i just get right n their six and its quite difficult to see you

another thing, when fighting the 47 with 50 cals, the plane gets annoying how well it can survive

[Noir]

The Typhoon/Tempest seem pretty tough in the wing fuselage area, although the chin radiator gets taken out by ack rather easily.

when I see the thickness of that wing I'm not surprised

[Kweassa]

...but it seems to lack the armor it had.

 ... for the gazillionth time, what "armour" ?

 Even the heavily armed Fw190A-8 Sturmbock variants rarely had any "armour" - just additional armour plating around the cockpit and the ammo boxes, and thicker windshield glass was about all it had.

 Just where this did myth of certain "tough planes have armour" start in the first place?

 

 

[Wingnutt]

the achilles heel of the jug is the fuel..

take a hit to main fuel farther than half a sector out from a friendly base and your done..  1 big fuel tank that leaks REALLY fast.

[Jappa52]

I have a photo of a Mossie 6 that struck the mast of a U-Boat while straffing it and had its entire cannon package ripped from the aircraft, but it did bring back the Nazi naval jack.

can you post this please?

[titanic3]

http://www.ww2fighters.org/images/p47/fireballDAM.jpg

Not tough enough eh? half a wing, bended/crooked fuselage, oil leaks, and a few holes here and there.. (sarcasm).

Taken from another WWII Flight Sim: Jane's WWII Fighters.
I happened to get shot up by a Fw 190 and got blown up badly by ack. Landed back at a base at Aachen with no gears. Even though it's a different game, it still show the survival rate of the 47.

[MachNum]

the achilles heel of the jug is the fuel..

I'd agree with that observation. A fuel hit will do you in when flying a P-47, and ack seems fine tuned to hit the fuel.
What happened to that whole "self-sealing" fuel tank thing? 

[Kweassa]

I'd agree with that observation. A fuel hit will do you in when flying a P-47, and ack seems fine tuned to hit the fuel.
What happened to that whole "self-sealing" fuel tank thing?

 A simple explanation would be that in most cases you've been hit, some hits actually did hit the fuel tanks, and yet failed to ignite due to the self-sealing tanks, or whatever method of modelling AH uses to depict its effect - thus, players only notice when the fuel ignites, and casually forget all the other instances when it didn't. Its entirely possible the "whole self-sealing fuel tank thing" is already working.

 Ofcourse, unless HT chimes in there's no way of being sure.

[NEARY]

the p-47 can fly with half a wing off. i would know i was alone flying a tbm against bish and a p-47 attacked me i shot half its wing off with my turrut but it was still flying, all that got hit was a gunand i still took out the radar for 13.75 perks but ten minutes after the p-47 attacked i got a you shot down game id. i still can't believe it stayed up that long.

[Widewing]

the p-47 can fly with half a wing off. i would know i was alone flying a tbm against bish and a p-47 attacked me i shot half its wing off with my turrut but it was still flying, all that got hit was a gunand i still took out the radar for 13.75 perks but ten minutes after the p-47 attacked i got a you shot down game id. i still can't believe it stayed up that long.

A good pilot would have no trouble landing a P-47 missing half a wing....


My regards,

Widewing

[ian5440]

A good pilot would have no trouble landing a P-47 missing half a wing....

thats what i got from NEARY ??

it just sounds like your contradicting him