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Title: BBs are weak?
Post by: Lusche on August 28, 2009, 01:04:24 PM

Two 7.92mm guns can't kill anything? Il-2 Is a flying tank?

(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/4999/d3avsil2red.jpg)

 :devil

Title: Re: BBs are weak?
Post by: oakranger on August 28, 2009, 01:06:42 PM

Good kill>   :aok

Title: Re: BBs are weak?
Post by: LLogann on August 28, 2009, 01:07:05 PM

That stuff is all true.....LOL

You sir, are a far better marksman!  Aiming for rivots, and gas valves....  Of course you can flame the IL2.   :x

Title: Re: BBs are weak?
Post by: SlapShot on August 28, 2009, 01:13:59 PM

Took down an A-20 last night with the 190-F BBs ... thankfully he took a slow left bank that allowed me to pour a loooooong solid stream on his wing root.

Title: Re: BBs are weak?
Post by: gyrene81 on August 28, 2009, 01:25:13 PM

This might tell the tale pretty well:

(http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/MCRel1.jpg)

If I'm in a plane...shoot the 7.92mm at me instead of the 12.7 or 20mm.  :D

Title: Re: BBs are weak?
Post by: moot on August 28, 2009, 03:28:11 PM

 :lol  Thx for the new ahlogo.jpg Lusche.

Title: Re: BBs are weak?
Post by: sethipus on August 28, 2009, 03:38:19 PM

A couple of weeks ago I had an absolutely freak kill against a Pony.  I forget exactly which plane I was in but I took a quick burst snapshot at a Pony that had overshot me, using just BBs.  I got exactly one ping on the Pony's wingroot and his wing fell off.  One single machine-gun hit took off his wing.  He wasn't smoking or obviously missing any parts, but I can't say for sure whether he was previously shot up already, or if I scored that once-in-a-lifetime Golden BB hit, but I got the kill, so if he'd already been shot up, his previous foe was no longer in flight.  Needless to say it was just about the freakiest kill I've yet seen in AH in terms of sheer improbability.

Last night I was flying with a squadmate, and I told him I was out of cannon but I'd help him out with an LA-7 that had shown up, by spraying some BBs at it to make it turn and bleed off some E.  I was in a K4 so it was basically 50 caliber machine-guns, not the wimpier 8mm ones, and the LA just happened to turn in such a way that my burst held onto his left wing for like 1/4 or a second or so, and off it came.  I chuckled at that one.

During the most recent Battle of Britain, I joined Delirium's 110C after mine was already down, and watched as he racked up about five or six kills with his BBs only, since he was out of cannon.