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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: BALSUR on February 17, 2005, 01:24:28 AM
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Pyro, I've done some looking into the rate of fire for the Tiger tank. I have come across the Tiger Gunner's manual. It states "the expected performance was to have 1 hit outta 3 within 30 secounds". So, translated 1 shot every 10 secounds. Currantly AH's tiger fires 1 round every 4 to 5 secounds(depends how fast your watch is). Now the Flak 88 fires 1 round every 4 secounds but not the Tiger's 88. Is this something that can be fixed or adjusted?
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quote:Originally posted by BALSUR
I read that BB flit, some good stuff there. I noticed they did alot of testing on tank destroyers. I saw that an average of 10 sec for firing and when working out of the "G" rack its was 17.8 secounds. I happened to come across the Tiger gunner's manual. It is stated that expected performance was to have 1 hit outta 3 within 30 secounds. So, an average of 10 secounds. Just did alittle test and AH's tigers firing rate of 4 secounds. Which is the firing rate of the Flak 88 but not the Tiger's 88. So, I dont know if this was overlooked but can it be fixed?
"It is stated that expected performance was to have 1 hit outta 3 within 30 secounds"
Perhaps you don't know how a tank crew and the firing process works but from how I read this they are talking about the process not just the act of reloading the weapon system.
This process includes identifying target, confirming targets, the sighting process for the gunner and shot. Follow up is ammo load ident, ie; he or ap the loader clearing the tube and shoving the next round into the chamber and telling the crew he is cleared of the recoil path.
As far as strictly loading, if the loader knows what to expect next you can bet that he will have already have pulled the next shell off the rack and have it ready to slam home once the shot is made. The process could easily take 3-4 seconds in a well trained crew.
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On the link from Flit, the brits tested out various tanks and rates of fire. They tested 4 differant people and averaged 8 to 10 secounds by just slamming in a shell and firing with no aiming. So, ten secounds wouldn't be unreasonable since the turret consisted of 3 people. The commander and gunner on the left side and the loader on the right. So, gunner would still be tracking target as loader is slamming in shell. Once in BAM. Time for aiming wouldn't be a factor.
Also, one one note the loader cant pull the next shell and have it waiting until he clears the breach of the cannon. During this procedure the loader has to visually confirm the breach and barrel are clear so not to have an explosion due to fouling.