One tough jug

[Baine]

Took a Panzer to an enemy airfield Sunday night. I was happily parked in a hanger, blasting away at fuel tanks, ammo bunkers and spawning ground vehicles when some poor pilot spawned a jug in the same hanger I was occupying. As he rolled away to take off, I put a 75 mm shell right into the rear of his fuselage at 100 yards, expecting a satisfying boom! Instead, his wing just fell off. It took another 75 mm to finish him off as he lay there like a turtle on its back.
That's one tough plane, especially when you consider that a single 75mm round willl usually kill an armored Panzer, and sometimes even a Tiger, if you can get that close behind it.

[skernsk]

AP or HE?  

HE works better on planes

[SKurj]

if it was AP... it may pass straight through a thinly skinned aircraft...

I always use HE on aircraft and half tracks cuz you can miss and still kill if you are close enough


SKurj

[Shiva]

Originally posted by Baine
That's one tough plane, especially when you consider that a single 75mm round willl usually kill an armored Panzer, and sometimes even a Tiger, if you can get that close behind it.

AP is really bad at killing planes outright; they'll usually break something important, but not kill the plane completely; HE is the round of choice for that and for whacking ground objects.

And every so often you get the chance to grab the Holy Grail of GV vulching -- several weeks ago I was sitting 1800 yards away from an airfield, both tracks blown, lobbing HE shells into the runway spawn, and blew away a 262 three seconds after its pilot upped onto the runway.   I was laughing so hard I almost missed my shot at the next pair of planes that upped there.

[Albacore]

lol

[Ridge]

LOL, i think we need to start recording more often

[Shiva]

Originally posted by Ridge
LOL, i think we need to start recording more often

Yeah, I wish to hell that I'd had my film on; I'd frame the time increment right before the explosion of the 262 and put it up on my wall.