Tanks blah

[Midway]

don't fly down the barrel of their gun stupid! 

 

[Slate]

   I also think as a game it's fine as it is. Just that the OP is whining about the occasional main gun kill on a plane.
 It's far easier to kill a tank with Aircraft than kill a plane with a tank in this game so the whine from a pilot gets no sympathy from me.

[uptown]

And pilots didn't magically pop up in the tower after getting shot down, only to hop in a brand new plane 30 seconds later.

Bushes didn't stop tanks in their tracks

Bombers weren't flown in F3 mode

Spitfires didn't shoot down other Spitfires

German squads didn't fly LA7s

CVs didn't park on the shore smothering a base with puffy ack...etc. etc. etc..


So tanks shooting planes out of the sky doesn't seem that strange to me considering this is the intardnet we're talking about.

[Butcher]

Depending on the experience of the tanker, some will snipe you out of the skies if you fly within 1200 of their tank, I'm glad so few can do this because I know how accurate I can be in a Panther..

[AKP]

Low altitude, shallow dives make it all too easy to take down a plane with the main gun.  Come in at a steeper angle that the gun cant elevate to, and make sure your egress isnt low and shallow either. 

[Tilt]

For me.............

remove the range icon  (if not all icons) when viewing stuff through the main (tank) gun sight.......... should make it a little harder.

also introduce the PTAB for the IL2 (or even also the Yak9B)  and harden armour agin 20mm HE rounds if required.

[FearDeth]

ive slammed a 75mm hvap into 2 stortchs and a il2 so far, its funny, i love it when they think their invincible,

[Oddball-CAF]

Tanks shooting planes out of the sky with their main cannons is bs...........

Hi Silat,
  My guess as to what happened is that you weren't the victim of direct fire
from a tank, but went down when a tank purposely fired HE into the
ground in order to kill you with the blast.
  It's a quite gamey tactic that was shown to me a couple of years back.

Best regards, Odd

[Butcher]

Given the person who shot ya down, he's an experienced tanker in my book.

I still love your new stilettos Silat, purple with sparkly stuff all over them, sure delerium is jealous 

[Shuffler]

Good reason to bomb them into submission.

[WWhiskey]

I was a Tanker in the real Army and no tank in the history of the world ever shot down a plane and if it ever did happen I can tell you the tank crew never knew it. If you ever had an opportunity to look through a tanks sight you would see why you can't shoot a plane down.  

lol   the expert has spoken.
 I'm not even going to ask !  oh heck I can't help it,,, what real army?

[titanic3]

Don't the M1 Abrams have a "shotgun" shell that was designed to take down low flying helis and buildings?

[matt]

ive been shot dont by a tank.. i've also shot down an aircraft whats the big deal

[oakranger]

Don't the M1 Abrams have a "shotgun" shell that was designed to take down low flying helis and buildings?

Yea, they are call canister shells pack with over thousand 9 mm tungsten balls.  Very effective in urban war.

I used the whole 10 yards on one tank and had no effects on it.  A lot of the time i would focus on the tracks to de-track them and still have no luck. 

[M1A1]

M1A2 and A2 SEP have an air engagement mode in the Firecontrol system used mostly with the MPAT round which is the replacement for the Heat round. It is used mostly for low level subsonic AC (Helicopters) The MPAT round has a switchable fuse setting for ground or air (proximity) twist and switch.

The .50 cal rounds that would penetrate tanks top or underbelly would be API (Armor piercing Incendiary Rounds) which were used in abundance but would be hard pressed to penetrate anything over 2 inches of RHA which the Germans used in abundance.

I used .50 cal API rounds with great effect in Iraq on Toyota engine blocks and the like. They are way harder than ball ammo for sure so the distortion to the round on the bounce I think would be minimal at the angle they would have to hit to richocette upward under a tanks so I guess it would be possible to kill or at least disable a tank like that.

As a gunner in an abrams crew you are taught how to engage aircraft with sabot which depending on the aircraft and angle of it's attack it is theoreticaly possible to hit it but would really be a waste of ammo in 99% of cases..


16 years as a tanker in case anyone questions the knowledge

M48A5, M60A3, M1IP, M1A1/A2 qualified Treadhead..