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Offline Dago

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« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2000, 08:26:00 PM »
COOL!!!!!!!

Cant wait.

Keep up the great work.

(In the distance a sad voice is heard to mumble, "just wait, v3.0 is coming, yeah, it's coming"    )  (maybe, but we got new stuff all the time in AH)

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« Reply #16 on: July 13, 2000, 08:39:00 PM »
Wah! Wah! Wah! Wah!

It's deliberately undermodeled! It's an American biased plot!!


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« Reply #17 on: July 13, 2000, 11:15:00 PM »
"Kill them Before they Grow"

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« Reply #18 on: July 13, 2000, 11:37:00 PM »
Slow rate of fire and a boatload of ammo.  The open turret is vulnerable to strafing for anybody who wants to risk it.



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« Reply #19 on: July 14, 2000, 12:37:00 AM »
Whats the effective vertical range on that pyro?

Just how far up will we be able to reach out & touch a B17?????

Slow rate of fire, slower than panzer main gun? Or slower than 20mm?

ohh and ehmmmm 2 weeks?    


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« Reply #20 on: July 14, 2000, 03:38:00 AM »
think you'd need this thing to touch a B17 Ghosth

I don't even wanna know its rate of fire, but surely does have some punch
 

this thing would be neat   twin 30mm "Doppelflak", 1200 rounds. Its been in prototype stage though
 

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« Reply #21 on: July 14, 2000, 06:06:00 AM »
Nexx stole my joke!  

Dear god that thing is ugly   Think I've seen it before in Total Annihilation though...

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« Reply #22 on: July 14, 2000, 08:11:00 AM »
Pyro/Nate:
Any chance  you can model the proximity type fuse, where the HE  will detonate  at  a given alt for maximum efficiency?  You know, burst of shrapnel, inflicting damage on A/C?

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« Reply #23 on: July 14, 2000, 11:14:00 AM »
So then it won't fire flak as an option, is my guess. Making a direct hit on a plane wont be easy, unless they buzz you.

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« Reply #24 on: July 14, 2000, 11:17:00 AM »
 
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Originally posted by dosequis:
So then it won't fire flak as an option, is my guess. Making a direct hit on a plane wont be easy, unless they buzz you.

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Yep, that's exactly what I was thinking when I made my proximity fuse post.  Worthless and vulnerable to strafing attacks. <Rip closes the hatch cover on his Mark IV and latches it>


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« Reply #25 on: July 14, 2000, 12:04:00 PM »
Geez, this thing is going to be a killer for base defense.  This thing with a 37mm is going to be able to shoot further than D1.5 and a hit is going to be fairly fatal.  I couldn't imagine trying to approach a field if there are a couple of these things driving around.  They'd be blasting away at you from way outside your range to do anything back to them.  And if they were smart, they'd wait until you got to D1.5 before they opened fire... poof, you're dead.

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« Reply #26 on: July 14, 2000, 12:08:00 PM »
I'm wondering what role the M16 will play now. Perhaps this Ostwind is so slow that yer only gonna want to use it for base defence, while using the M16 for offensive support?

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« Reply #27 on: July 14, 2000, 12:11:00 PM »
The only reference I could find:

The 3.7-cm (37 mm) Model 36 and Model 37 antiaircraft gun ("Westerwald") was developed in 1938 by Rheinmetall from the precursor 3.7-cm (37 mm) Model 18 as a recoil-loader with sliding barrel and central bolt action. The barrel was 2,112.2 mm (7 ft.) long; the theoretical rate of fire was 160 shots per minute and the effective rate 80. Depending on the type of cartridge used, the muzzle velocity was 770-820 meters per second (847-902 yd./sec.). The maximum range was 6,600 meters (7,260 yd.), and the maximum ceiling 4,800 meters (5,280 yd.). The ammunition was in 6-round clips. The weapon's carriage stood on a triangular base.
Weighing 1,544 kg (3,397 lb.), the gun could be moved on the Model 52 trailer. The Model 37 was differentiated from its precursors
by its aiming sight. The 3.7-cm gun could also be installed on vehicles and buildings. After 1944 it saw action with the
self-propelled antiaircraft weapon "Ostwind," on the chassis of the Panzer IV.

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« Reply #28 on: July 14, 2000, 12:37:00 PM »
B/W pic of the real  thing, info: http://www.achtungpanzer.com/flak4.htm#ostwind

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« Reply #29 on: July 14, 2000, 12:40:00 PM »
I have the following data for the 3,7cm Flak 36:

Barrel lenght: 3626mm
Muzzle velocity (HE): 820m/s
Muzzle velocity (AP): 770m/s
Max. range: 6500m
Max. ceiling: 4800m
ROF (theoretically): 160rpm
ROF (practically): 120 rpm

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