HE will detonate and will kill a tank. needs to land on top and from a hi arc. killed a couple Panzers w/ the LTV4 howitzer and once with a T34 76 (the HE was all I had). never really expected to get a kill, was mostly trying to harass 'em.
Good day,I have noticed that HE rounds of all descriptions have little or no effect on tanks. Upon closer inspection and many attacks done off line I could actually see that they were not detonating on impact. Instead the rounds would bounce off and explode when they hit the ground.I tested this in an extreme and easy to duplicate scenario and was greatly surprised by the result. Off line, loaded a T34/85.Drove it over to a Tiger Tank.Set up my shot so that I was as close to 90 degrees of deflection as possible on its flank.Fired repeatedly at very very close range, (about 10 yards )As I fired I started receiving the sound effect of getting hit. (This required a great deal of aim adjustment after each shot to get the right angle.)Continuing to fire I eventually blew my own tracks off.The HE rounds were failing to explode on the target. The round was bouncing back and hitting my tank. Then the HE round would explode doing damage to ME! I have a film of this really strange HE round behavior but I do not know how to post it with this reportregardsOLtos
Something I want to see is someone getting kill shot on a friendly airplane by bouncing a round off an enemy tank .
I've fired a 30mm at the tail of a hostile plane, and the splash damage from my own 30mm round pilot killed me...
Hm. I've killed a few planes by hitting the ocean underneath them with taters, but never caused damage to my own plane with them...how close were you?
About two inches short of a radical colonoscapy.
