Author Topic: Will the Tiger Tanks 88MM have AAA capability? (Read 409 times)

F4UDOA · « **on:** November 05, 2002, 09:48:27 AM »

88MM where the best AAA guns of the war.

Any chance of getting air burst shells for base defense or base offense?

I can hear the whines already.

Pei · « **Reply #1 on:** November 05, 2002, 11:05:05 AM »

While the 88mm gun was one of the best heavy AA guns the mounting on the Tiger was not desinged to be used in the AA role. The treverse would be too slow, the sights wrong and the elevation too limited and the I doubt that AA ammo was ever issued to Tiger units.

Being shot down by tank main guns might have happened in very rare instances but this was more a case of luck than judgement. The super-ack tanks in il2 are one of it's worst features and and I'd hate to see them happen here.

J_A_B · « **Reply #2 on:** November 05, 2002, 02:37:09 PM »

The Panzer tank used to be able to shoot down planes with its main gun without too much trouble, a long time ago in AH.

The shells flying through the air looked like the shells from fleet guns.

J_A_B

Tony Williams · « **Reply #3 on:** November 05, 2002, 03:33:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Pei
While the 88mm gun was one of the best heavy AA guns the mounting on the Tiger was not desinged to be used in the AA role. The treverse would be too slow, the sights wrong and the elevation too limited and the I doubt that AA ammo was ever issued to Tiger units.

Being shot down by tank main guns might have happened in very rare instances but this was more a case of luck than judgement.

Agree entirely.

Tony Williams
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