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Offline thrila

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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #30 on: March 22, 2009, 06:18:22 AM »
An armoured personnel carrier isn't really comparable to a WWII heavy tank. 

The longbow could penetrate steel too, though i'm not convinced it could take out a tiger. :D
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #31 on: March 22, 2009, 06:33:15 AM »
"Zose Eeeeenglish bastardes, zey are bouncing ze arrowes off ze muhd of Agincourt!'

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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #32 on: March 22, 2009, 08:01:53 AM »
Quote from: Scherf on March 22, 2009, 06:33:15 AM
"Zose Eeeeenglish bastardes, zey are bouncing ze arrowes off ze muhd of Agincourt!'

"Sacre blue and zut alors! Ah shall waive mah private pahrts at zeir Aunties!"
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #33 on: March 22, 2009, 10:03:12 AM »
Quote from: Karnak on March 21, 2009, 11:28:55 PM
I really dislike your particular kind of buffoon.  People mistake what they see all the time.  They believe erroneous things all the time.  WWII vets are not demi-gods and they are not infallible.

This reminds me of my great-uncle Paul.
Really a great guy, honest, funny, a simple worker all of his life - and a WWII vet that went through the whole crap from the first to the last day.
But one day, he got very angry when young Lusche spoke about Stukas in Poland - "There had been no Stukas then! - I was there!"
He was utterly convinced that the Ju-87 "Stuka" was designed during the war and showed up only in the final year. It was absolutely impossible (especially for a 13-year old back then) to convince him of anything different
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #34 on: March 22, 2009, 11:24:35 AM »
Quote from: JunkyII on March 22, 2009, 02:30:45 AM
50 cals are able to penetrate steal, got to find it but saw a 50 light up a BMP and it caught fire
Even the modern M903 sabot rounds are only rated at 34mm at 500 yards.  That is straight on, not after loosing 3/4 of its energy on a bounce
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #35 on: March 22, 2009, 12:55:00 PM »
i was reading where they would drop 500lb bombs on the side of the tigers and it would flip the tigers making them useless






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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #36 on: March 22, 2009, 01:44:52 PM »
2nd picture is a Panther.

Also, regardless of a 500lb bomb dropped near the side of a Tiger, the concussion of the bomb is killing everyone in the tank.   
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #37 on: March 22, 2009, 04:49:34 PM »
and in the arena it doesnt do nothing
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #38 on: March 22, 2009, 05:02:39 PM »
Quote from: TheZohan on March 22, 2009, 04:49:34 PM
and in the arena it doesnt do nothing

Right. It does not do nothing = It does something. It kills Tigers.

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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #39 on: March 22, 2009, 05:16:58 PM »
Quote from: Lusche on March 22, 2009, 05:02:39 PM
Right. It does not do nothing = It does something. It kills Tigers.



At least somebody in here understands the english language.  :D
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #40 on: March 23, 2009, 06:52:46 AM »
Wow, pretty amazing to see such heavy tanks flipped upside down  :huh That must've taken some force! (or bad driving)
The Panther on the 2nd picture looks just like a helpless turtle hehe :D
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #41 on: March 23, 2009, 08:12:26 AM »
Quote from: thrila on March 22, 2009, 06:18:22 AM
An armoured personnel carrier isn't really comparable to a WWII heavy tank. 

The longbow could penetrate steel too, though i'm not convinced it could take out a tiger. :D
true and it probably was the AP rounds,
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #42 on: March 24, 2009, 02:22:08 PM »
Quote from: frank3 on March 23, 2009, 06:52:46 AM
Wow, pretty amazing to see such heavy tanks flipped upside down  :huh That must've taken some force! (or bad driving)
The Panther on the 2nd picture looks just like a helpless turtle hehe :D

they would drop 500lb bombs on the side of the tanks and the concussion would literally flip them over..
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #43 on: March 24, 2009, 04:15:36 PM »
Im pretty sure they actually aimed for the tanks, not to the side of them, it just happened if it landed next to them it would flip them over.

a direct hit from a 500 pound bomb moving a few hundred miles an hour will destroy just about anything, including any tank that has ever existed, there is no purposeful reason to deliberately miss them in an attempt to flip them over.
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Re: p-47's kill Tigers
« Reply #44 on: March 24, 2009, 04:18:40 PM »
actually they did aim for the side of them.. i was reading the Il-2 pilots would do this
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