Marking Enemy Tanks

[Becinhu]

I think we should be able to exit our tank, run over to the enema tank and write "ENEMA TANK!!!" on it's side with a window paint pen. Then of course we should be allowed to go back to our tsank and wait for a friendly to kill the marked tank.
 

[DemonFox]

HiTech I like the idea! My only question is how would you have the system set up? What would it actually do? An if we got something like this would it be viable to have (please don't hurt me!) the PBY-5A mark a CV?

[AWwrgwy]

There was a movie once where the oddball of a tank commander fired paint rounds to scare enemy tanks.  Does anyone know that movie???     Maybe that is what the OP wants????

Regardless, I vote NO.  They didnt have anything but a radio back then.  No SAT images, not night vision, no laser range finders, just some blokes watermelon chatting on radios.   

I need to fix the pic in my sig I think.

It wasn't to scare tanks. It was to "paint pretty pictures".
The speakers to play really loud music was to scare them.



wrongway

[Bruv119]

flares? 

they could burn for a minute or two then die out.

The British night bomber force did all sorts of marking with pathfinders.   They got so good they could mark a target that was covered in cloud and put an  X   where the buffs needed to bomb.    (Guy Gibson, Enemy coast ahead)

[Seanaldinho]

Lately Pyro and I have been thinking of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDcB0pSUYOI

HiTech

 

That plane could work as aerial recon and then have the M8 driving around as vehicle recon. So you get the best of both worlds and the M8 takes on teh role it was designed for, scouting.

[SilverZ06]

Lately Pyro and I have been thinking of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDcB0pSUYOI

HiTech

 

HOLY CHIT! I saw one of these flying at fantasy of flight not too long ago and pulled off the road to watch it. I had no idea what it was but my god was it awesome. Very maneuverable and almost hovered down to earth. It had German paint and I tried to take cell phone video of it but it didn't come out. Anyway thanks for posting that link. Now I can stop looking for what it was.

[iron650]

The Smoke round was used to mark enemy positions often.

But +1

[Seanaldinho]

The Smoke round was used to mark enemy positions often.

But +1

I think that applied more to non moving things (dugouts, trenches, MG nests) that couldnt take advantage of the smoke like an enemy tank might.

[Scotty55OEFVet]

Think about it a tank commander could easily have said over his radio "enemy tank at _____ direction heading ______"

So I imply that in the gun reticule you have an extra type of "round" where if  you line the reticule up and click "fire" on an enemy tank a small flag appears over their turret . Within a minute or 2 the flag disappears. Maybe the amount of marks you get per sortie is limited maybe not.

Flame on. 

 

Um, why dont we just have little Pointers that have the range and dir NME tanks are sitting as well...firing a rnd to mark a tank is about as useful as a soldier yelling in the middle of the night that "he sees something coming." All that would do is give the NME Tank you were firing on the opportunity to firre an accurate round right back at ya before you get the chance to...it gives away your position

[iron650]

Um, why dont we just have little Pointers that have the range and dir NME tanks are sitting as well...firing a rnd to mark a tank is about as useful as a soldier yelling in the middle of the night that "he sees something coming." All that would do is give the NME Tank you were firing on the opportunity to firre an accurate round right back at ya before you get the chance to...it gives away your position

Or an ally diving on the enemy while you're trying to get the bandit. True it does give your position especially when you're trying to hide.

[Rino]

you really want something like this, only bigger when people are asking for more realistic things?

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it would still have to be very large and neon like an icon...and if it doesn't move with the vehicle, what good would it do? i'm playing devil's advocate here...    ...if you're with other tankers, it comes down to understanding the tools you have at your disposal, vox, map and tank commanders view with magnified view...say you do spot an enemy vehicle hidden and you want to direct others in your area to it...a quick look around to check relative positions of the friendlies to the enemy vehicle and direction the friendly vehicles are facing compared to you and call it out to each friendly you want to involve using relative positions and ranges.

     I was looking for the humor picture of one Dutch infantry man towing another guy with a trailer mounted MG
that looks close to your shot.  I couldn't find it, but check out what turns up with you Google machine gun bicycle 

[Seanaldinho]

Um, why dont we just have little Pointers that have the range and dir NME tanks are sitting as well...firing a rnd to mark a tank is about as useful as a soldier yelling in the middle of the night that "he sees something coming." All that would do is give the NME Tank you were firing on the opportunity to firre an accurate round right back at ya before you get the chance to...it gives away your position

No you misunderstood the gunsight is simply for aiming the device no actual round is fired. It is simply the media used to aim your little "marker/flag"