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Title: B-25H's 75mm A2A impacts
Post by: moot on July 07, 2009, 08:11:13 AM

A wish for an animated hit sprite for the 75mm shell, when hitting airplanes.  Either the 30mm+ fireball, or the standard tank round HE fireball, instead of the current small tennis ball sprite.   And a larger than normal audible debris area to go with it :)

Title: Re: B-25H's 75mm A2A impacts
Post by: AKP on July 07, 2009, 09:14:23 AM

 :aok

Title: Re: B-25H's 75mm A2A impacts
Post by: APDrone on July 07, 2009, 10:08:02 AM

Silly question time..

Aside from an engine block.. is there any mass in an airplane sufficient enough to trigger the HE fuze?

Or would you just be punching 3" holes through the frame/wing/pilot..

Title: Re: B-25H's 75mm A2A impacts
Post by: Karnak on July 07, 2009, 01:04:23 PM

Main spar would do it, armor plating would do it, guns would do it.

At the battle of Tsushima in 1903 the Japanese 12" shells were even detonating on the Russian ship's handrails.

Title: Re: B-25H's 75mm A2A impacts
Post by: Ack-Ack on July 07, 2009, 05:21:04 PM

Quote from: APDrone on July 07, 2009, 10:08:02 AM

Silly question time..

Aside from an engine block.. is there any mass in an airplane sufficient enough to trigger the HE fuze?

Or would you just be punching 3" holes through the frame/wing/pilot..

Good question.  Something that I started to wonder about the other day.  Shot at a Bf110 that overshot me and hit him in the port with with the 75mm cannon.  All the round did was break off the wing, didn't explode and the shell continued to travel and eventually hit the ground, ironically just about the same time as the Bf110 did.


ack-ack

Title: Re: B-25H's 75mm A2A impacts
Post by: moot on July 07, 2009, 05:28:28 PM

I've never seen that.  A hit with a cannon or MG round that kept flying after the impact.  Never..

Title: Re: B-25H's 75mm A2A impacts
Post by: Ack-Ack on July 07, 2009, 07:23:16 PM

maybe it's just the same visual you see tanks firing at something from above.  The round looks like it goes through the object and continues past until it finally impacts the ground.


ack-ack

Title: Re: B-25H's 75mm A2A impacts
Post by: moot on July 07, 2009, 07:29:42 PM

Yeah but that's only when you're seeing another player's round.  I've never seen or heard of it as actually modeled and visible when you're shooting, yourself.

Title: Re: B-25H's 75mm A2A impacts
Post by: Larry on July 08, 2009, 02:38:24 AM

Quote from: moot on July 07, 2009, 07:29:42 PM

Yeah but that's only when you're seeing another player's round.  I've never seen or heard of it as actually modeled and visible when you're shooting, yourself.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/24/1013733/1.5%20B25h%20kill.zip

Title: Re: B-25H's 75mm A2A impacts
Post by: moot on July 08, 2009, 02:46:35 AM

Huh.. That's a first in 10 years.  Are you sure that's what it looked like and not just a film viewer quirk?