We need slow, heavily armed and armoured anti-tank kites. Our A-8 is not the Sturm variant, nor the F type. Other kites are too much vulnerable to 0.50 fire. I flew the HS-129 during CK beta-testing. She was ugly butt but deadly, like the Russian kite.
Cant imagine Sturmoviks (sp?) and/or HS-129's buzzing tank/M16 columns covered by light fighters, hammered by alt-monkeys, bounced by La-5FN, Macchi's and Typhoons when they loose alt and E ....
Good work NATEDOG and SUPERFLY!
"We took off from Schweidnitz to attack a Russian tank column which was advancing between Streigau and Jauer. Flying with me in an Hs 129 B-3 as Number 2 in my Schwarm was a young pilot with fewer than ten operational missions to his credit. On our third approach against a T-34, his shot hit the side of the tank, just below its turret. The 75 mm round blew a hole about one metre (3 ft) in diameter in the left hand side of the hull and the tank immediately caught fire. During the following operation that day, while we were operating against tanks in the city of Streigau, a tank exploded after the first shot. The impact of the 75 mm cannon was extraordinary." 
[This message has been edited by gatt (edited 04-10-2000).]
