Tank vs. airplane

[lunatic1]

I complained to skuzzy..... there is just no way a lousy 88 round should hurt my Super 38. It has stressed skin and all.   






lets see 88mm amour piercing round,against thin alumanim panel----hmmmm---i think ap round wins
and the he  round will mess up your day as well--it explodes with steel balls or schrapnel  <---mispelled.
it's been done in real life..and i've shot down 5 planes in 6 month's with ap.quit whining










 

[smokey23]

Last night it happened again i set up between base and town at a base we were working on and a IL2 ups makes a hard right turn and comes at my M4 at 50' off the deck so i popped him and figured he wouldnt do that again. But what's he do ups and turns hard right and comes at me agin 50' and i pop him again this happened 4 times while another IL2 comes in at a steep ange and tracks me.However even tracked the other IL2 keeps doing this and keeps getting maingunned. I was yellin at my screen for him to stop!!! i felt sorry for the guy.

[Dream Child]

If I'm low and straight on with a tank I don't mind getting popped by the main gun. The shots that bother me are the shots where I'm diving in at 30 degrees or higher AOA or my all time favorite is when the tank misses you the first shot and then pops you as soon as he reloads at 180 degrees from the first shot whilst the plane is in a hi yo-yo. My main gun won't turn 180 faster than a plane will and I can't seem to elevate my gun to 45 degrees or higher for a shot. It is also almost always the shermans that do this.  Amazing or gamey...you choose.

If you're coming in at a high enough angle, he won't be able to hit you. If he hits you with the main gun, you're doing it wrong.

[chris3]

moin

do you all knew that Otto Carius (tiger comander) Guner killed a il2 with his 8,8cm gun like AHII stile. must be in late 43.
it happens realy in real life . ok it was luck i think but in ah you need luck too. the diverence is that we all hade more fire practice than every guner of ww2 did have.

cu chris3

[Chalenge]

I dont care if it happened in real life and even if it is gamey... I believe the tank gun sights are a little better in AH then in RL and I dont have a problem with that. You should expect to die if you are in an IL2 and the same goes for tanks. Fun/fun and win/win and all that... Think of it as game concessions if you must but dont whine about it man!

[Raptor]

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additional film: http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/shermanAntiair.ahf

not exactly diving low to the ground within 600yds...

[FireDragon]

My best lucky shot was at 1.5 on an il2..... angle shot i just pulled the trigger and watched the tracer as it flew... used the force so to speak..... Now keep in mind that thats not really a dupilcatable shot just pure luck.


BUT  It really easy to shoot il2 or any plane down at 800 out .....You guys fly st right in down the barrel of the tank.... It actually really hard to MISS..... You all hold it so straight and steady on the way in.....

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[633DH98]

All low level attacks on tanks are HOs.   

[kilz]

best shot was low lancs trying to carpet bomb me. i parked on the up slant of a hill and popped his arse at 2.5. most ground to air kills in a tank i think would have been 56. most of the planes where airborn

[druski85]

Well I've never gotten more than a couple planes in a single tank sortie, but my favorite shot(s) I had a couple months ago.  Lancasters were diving (pretty steep angle) at a V-base on my 12, perpendicular to my movement.  When I fired the shot, icon showed 3k, so I gave him about that in increased gun angle. Fired where he would be in 10 secs or so after leveling out, and laughed as I blasted off his drone's tail with an HE round.  He decides to and get some distance, then finally turns back around.  Coming more or less right at me this time, (slightly off-kilter though) I drop his 2nd drone at 2.5k.  Took a couple more shots at his final bomber, but never got him.  That would have been classic  

Now in this case, I almost felt bad for the guy. (almost...he was still stuka-lanc'ing)   He was no where near me, and in neither case was he coming dead on toward my Sherman.  That being said, the vast majority of tank-plane kills I get are idiots coming in low angle, as has been noted many times.  If you have to come in at low angle, for gods sake look what way the barrel is facing.  If your staring down it, you may want to change attack. 

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

This is why tanks should not have icon range over 2k. 

[coola4me]

How about a 190 away shot! Heres the film shot is at 1.08!  http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d65e52f34eaab177d2db6fb9a8902bda

[Raptor]

Proof it is too easy to shoot a plane with a tank shell in AH

[FireDragon]

You telling me that if someone flys a real airplane right down the barrel of a real tank..... You should not be able to shoot it at 800 yards..... I bet its easier in real life... Just no one ever does it... and there would be plane wreckage everywere...

[BigPlay]

Ladies and Gentlemen, to begin, I am in the Army and I have served in armored units so I can say I speak with a shred of authority on this matter.  I for one and tired of being shot by tanks whilst strafing the heck out of them in my new IL-2 of doom with those wicked 37mm guns.  Imagine if you will the variables involved and the accuracy required to fire a 7.5 cm round around a kilometer and striking a target travelling 250 kts and changing both altitude and distance (vertically and laterally) at a tremendous rate.  In a tank if you are not spot on with range you cannot hit another stationary tank, yet fire near an airplane and it explodes.  All of this is somehow possible without the aid of computers, barometric pressure measuring devices, thermomters and so on.  If you would please record yourself, if you indulge in the tank strafing, and see what I mean.  I do admire the few who can pull it off, but is seems this is now the standard.  I get popped consistently at 1k.  Please do not read into this as a gripe, merely a fishing trip to see if there are others who have noticed this. 

There is a whole thread on air to air collisions and how unreal they are. The computer geeks have explained how this works, read it and see if itmakes any sence to you.