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Offline Torgo

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6x75 mm Recoiless Rifles on the Hs129?
« on: February 05, 2001, 11:53:00 AM »
Was poking around the net reading about these things...

Apparently had 6 75 mm Recoiless Rifles pointing down, connected to a magnetometer, that automatically fired when one flew directly over a tank, and it actually worked?

What was the alt this was effective at? How many built with this option?

Also saw the 75mm cannon mounted on the nose..that is hilarious...no doubt it really flew like a pig with that thing, considering how underpowered it was.

Will be a fun addition some day..even considering the small #s with the exotic armaments, seems it would be reasonable to have them all as armament choices..it's so incredibly vulnerable in the MA it wouldn't be unbalancing.

The satisfying automatic "whoomp" of the RRs going off when you fly over a Panzer has to be great.
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Offline Westy

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6x75 mm Recoiless Rifles on the Hs129?
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2001, 12:38:00 PM »
"no doubt it really flew like a pig with that thing,"

 It already flew like a pig even without that gun. It was no improvement over the Stuka for which it was intended to replace.

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Offline LLv34_Snefens

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6x75 mm Recoiless Rifles on the Hs129?
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2001, 01:41:00 PM »
But it looks much more cool than a Stuka  

 
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Offline Torgo

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6x75 mm Recoiless Rifles on the Hs129?
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2001, 02:08:00 PM »
 
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Originally posted by Westy:
"no doubt it really flew like a pig with that thing,"

 It already flew like a pig even without that gun. It was no improvement over the Stuka for which it was intended to replace.

 -Westy


Yeah, Helldiver disease :-)

No doubt the last Stuka with the twin 37mm was more effective than the 75mm Hs129.
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6x75 mm Recoiless Rifles on the Hs129?
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2001, 03:09:00 PM »
Wasn't there a version of the Me-262 with the same cannon?
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6x75 mm Recoiless Rifles on the Hs129?
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2001, 04:04:00 PM »
Belive it was the 50mm BK 50 on Me 262.


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6x75 mm Recoiless Rifles on the Hs129?
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2001, 04:39:00 PM »
50mm BK 5 was on the 262.

Those downward firing guns you are talking about were the SG113, it was a reducing-bore type recoilless gun with a maximum bore of 75mm and shell diameter of 45mm. In order for it to find its target with the electro-magnetic dector it had to fly at 8.5m and when an iron target was detected below the guns would fire straight downward.

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6x75 mm Recoiless Rifles on the Hs129?
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2001, 06:26:00 PM »
 I will take 2 pleeeeease.....

   


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