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Offline icepac

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #165 on: March 20, 2012, 12:49:30 PM »
Puffy ack has never once stopped me from bombing down the cv.

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #166 on: March 20, 2012, 12:56:42 PM »
Puffy ack has never once stopped me from bombing down the cv.

me neither, it killed a few fighters of mine tho.
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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #167 on: March 20, 2012, 12:59:37 PM »
Do you know any hot lesbians?

I'm suspecting a few in the thread as we waste time on this subject.  :D

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #168 on: March 20, 2012, 03:14:09 PM »
If you say it does then I believe ya but now i'm wondering just how big that "popcorn box" is? I was under the impression that the ack target box is about the same size as 1 plane if that.... any bigger I'd think the ack would take out buffs 3 at a time.  :headscratch:

Box size is in the 3/4 mile range.

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #169 on: March 20, 2012, 03:15:47 PM »
Box size is in the 3/4 mile range.

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Thank you. There's a lot of room there.

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #170 on: March 20, 2012, 03:22:29 PM »
Puffy ack has never once stopped me from bombing down the cv.
Nope, level bombers are always able to sink moving ships. Just like WW2. It's the poor saps in fighters, red or green that get it.

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #171 on: March 20, 2012, 03:34:07 PM »
Nope, level bombers are always able to sink moving ships. Just like WW2. It's the poor saps in fighters, red or green that get it.

I am pretty sure that level bombers were never widely successful against moving targets like ships.  Perhaps you are being really sarcastic?
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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #172 on: March 20, 2012, 06:40:35 PM »
Uh, yeah. I think he was. And I hate that guy.

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #173 on: March 20, 2012, 06:58:31 PM »
I am pretty sure that level bombers were never widely successful against moving targets like ships.  Perhaps you are being really sarcastic?
Well, maybe you should read up on what bombed the British ships in Singapore.




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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #174 on: March 20, 2012, 06:59:07 PM »
Nope, level bombers are always able to sink moving ships. Just like WW2. It's the poor saps in fighters, red or green that get it.

check the hit percentage of Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Papua New Guinea - there is a reason buffs were given 75mm cannons and a boatload of 50s and practiced skip bombing, air drops simply did not work or were quite ineffective.
First air drop went against the Shoho at the Coral Sea, here's a photo -


non-moving targets is a different story, Rubaul and Wewak ports were plastured by air bombardments, but those ships were stationary in a lagoon type area.
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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #175 on: March 20, 2012, 07:07:34 PM »
Thanks for the history lesson. Now google "sarcasm".



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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #176 on: March 20, 2012, 07:14:07 PM »
sarcasm: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com : Flench when he is drunk , LOL ..... :)
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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #177 on: March 20, 2012, 07:54:53 PM »
Well, maybe you should read up on what bombed the British ships in Singapore.




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In the harbor or on the move?  Repulse and Prince of Wales come to mind, but then there were all those 17s that dropped on ships at Midway etc and didn't hit a thing.   How many tries by the RAF before they finally got the non-moving Tirpitz?

Gonna have to check and see if any carriers ever went down to level bombers. 
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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #178 on: March 20, 2012, 07:59:26 PM »
In the harbor or on the move?  Repulse and Prince of Wales come to mind, but then there were all those 17s that dropped on ships at Midway etc and didn't hit a thing.   How many tries by the RAF before they finally got the non-moving Tirpitz?

Gonna have to check and see if any carriers ever went down to level bombers. 
If I remember right the first ship to go down was from a level bomber . Seems like just 2 of them ?
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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #179 on: March 21, 2012, 06:57:40 AM »
I rarely get shot down by puffy ack. then again. Once I realise Im in it. I do what I can to get out of it unless im attcking a ship at which point I tryt o fly as evasively as possible
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