Ostwind Sustained Rate of Fire

[funked]

Well I drove the Ostwind on 3 missions tonight. 22 kills, equally divided between fighters, Lancasters, Panzers, and Ostwinds. I also killed 5 hangars and about a dozen acks and buildings.
It's a real monster.

The key to success (at least my success) was holding down the fire button and spraying all targets in view until they blew up.

I'm sure this thing has the correct cyclic rate, but didn't it need a new clip every 25 rounds or so? There was a crew of 6. It only takes one to drive and one to aim, so I figure the other 4 guys must have had something to do, which was probably to yank out spent magazines, put in fresh ones, and grab ammo out of storage to reload the spent magazines.

It might be a good idea to add in a magazine reload delay at the proper interval.  But for now I will enjoy the new King of AH.  



[This message has been edited by funked (edited 09-08-2000).]

[Saintaw]

It will shoot faster if you hit the Trigger fast, instead of Keeping it pressed... Blew a Pnzr in less than 2 seconds  

Saw

[pzvg]

Neg Funked, was a top feed chute type, guys dropped the rounds right into the chute, As long as the crew stayed on the gun and the ammo held out, ya could fire constant for oh, 40-45 min (but the barrel would be really sagging by then)  

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pzvg- "5 years and I still can't shoot"

[pzvg]

Err correction on myself, the data I gave was for 3.7cm Flak 36, the Ostwind's Flak 38 indeed used 8 round stripper clips, which would still allow constant fire if the crew was good enough  

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pzvg- "5 years and I still can't shoot"

[funked]

The one in AH is the 3.7 cm, so your first post applies.  Thanks for the info!

[flakbait]

Rate of fire for the Flak 18? Not a problem:

As taken from Handbook on German Military Forces

Length of tube: 10 feet 8 3/4 inches
Effective ceiling: 5,000 feet
Max horizontal range: 7,200 yards
Rate of fire: practical 80 rpm, sustained 220 rpm.
Muzzle velocity: 1,690 feet/sec
Elevation: -5º to +85º


The elevation is for the ground gun, not the SP variant used in the Ostwind. The rate of fire I've got lists only 80 practical, but another book states 220 rpm. While the Flak 43 can fire 150 rpm practical, 250 rpm theoreticaly.

Fast fact: only 40 Ostwind vehicles were ever made. [German Tanks of WW2]


Flakbait
Delta 6's Flight School

[funked]

Hmmm it shows a 3.7cm Flak 18 in the game, but I read somewhere else that it was a 3.7 cm Flak 43 L89.  I have no idea what the difference is.

Here's one place I found some info:  http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/8662/flak-panzer.htm