Planes vs. ACK

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From field Ack I expect to take 6-8 hit in the F8,until I get half-winged, and smoking engine, in the A8 its more like 5 or 6 at 350mph in- and outbound. most impressive are the 500mph hits you get regardless what you do.

Sometimes i fly back with both mg gone and and one outer cannon shot out, engine smoking. remember the only thing that differ F8 and A8 is the armour front underneath.

this tour I've been main gunned by m4 twice, i just wait to get rocketed by a Sdkfz251 next... one-man tank command give you advantage you did not have IRL. gunners only saw some degree's.

Manned ack are like "ka-boom" for most fighters, inflicting much damage.

[bozon]

Any plane. Ack is super easy to avoid.

Easiest to survive being hit? The Mossi is surprisingly tough for being made of wood.

Indeed back is easy to avoid. I keep 7k AGL and it won't reach me...

While the mossie can take a few hits before going down, being big and having two engines and two radiators mean that you are very likely to get crippled by the auto acks. Also the mossie is very susceptible to pilot wounds. I try very hard to keep out of the acks unless I am about to RTB anyway. I even developed the ability to hit with bombs from ~8k, pull out of the dive at 6k and zoom back up to safe 7k AGL.

P.S.
The nice thing about a wooden plane is that if you lose pieces, you just put it in water and they grow back.

[Slade]

Thanks for all the posts.

What does AGL mean?

[bozon]

Thanks for all the posts.

What does AGL mean?

Above Ground Level.

[Blooz]

F6F is the toughest fighter I've seen so far shrug off AA fire.

Many times I've hit them with 37mm AA and they just keep on flying.

B25's are the toughest attack plane. They can absorb multiple 37mm hits and keep going.

[glzsqd]

F6F is the toughest fighter I've seen so far shrug off AA fire.

Many times I've hit them with 37mm AA and they just keep on flying.

B25's are the toughest attack plane. They can absorb multiple 37mm hits and keep going.

B25 takes AAA really well, but I swear to go they light on fire almost instantly when being attack by fighters, and its damn elevator is always falling off. Sometimes I feel like I'm flying a A25M

[Rich46yo]

Yaks dont do well with any kind of hits to the canopy. Anyone have historical fact to back this up? Did the Yaks have armored canopies?

"Of course I could search and find out but thats so much more boring then using the knowledge of the group".

[Ack-Ack]

Yaks dont do well with any kind of hits to the canopy. Anyone have historical fact to back this up? Did the Yaks have armored canopies?

"Of course I could search and find out but thats so much more boring then using the knowledge of the group".

Not sure about the other Yak versions but I'm pretty sure, at least in the Yak-3's case, that it had very little, if any armor in order to achieve a lighter airframe.

[Krupinski]

You're all wrong. I remember de-acking 5 vehicle bases without losing a single part in the Me410.

[JOACH1M]

f6f

[Kazan_HB]

All planes with hispano 20mm 

[Auger]

All planes with hispano 20mm 

You must have never taken a Typhoon near base ack.  Guaranteed radiator hit within two passes.  3 minutes later your engine dies.

[Phoenix3107]

You must have never taken a Typhoon near base ack.  Guaranteed radiator hit within two passes.  3 minutes later your engine dies.

Same thing w/the Tempest, which brings up a questiion in my head: Why did the british designers thought it was a good idea to place the radiator and air intake just BELOW the propeller, let alone make it a big blob for ack to just easily kill off?

[Volron]

You must have never taken a Typhoon near base ack.  Guaranteed radiator hit within two passes.  3 minutes later your engine dies.

Wow you are lucky.  Anytime I go near base ack, my oil gets hit and/or engine get's shot out.  It's rare for me to get a radiator hit in the Typhoon.

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its mandatory in the D9 to get a radiator hit .