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Offline alpini13

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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #90 on: March 19, 2016, 09:07:33 AM »
there have been no new aircraft of ground vehicles added to this game since jan 2014.....and theres a long list of aircraft that need an update.the chances of getting something like this... are about 0

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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #91 on: March 19, 2016, 05:30:25 PM »
there have been no new aircraft of ground vehicles added to this game since jan 2014.....and theres a long list of aircraft that need an update.the chances of getting something like this... are about 0


  Wow how many times are you going to tell us about this fact??

   Maybe just maybe HTC has been busy working on the new version,so cut them some slack on not adding a new A/C or GV since 2014.




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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #92 on: March 19, 2016, 07:12:41 PM »

  Wow how many times are you going to tell us about this fact??

   Maybe just maybe HTC has been busy working on the new version,so cut them some slack on not adding a new A/C or GV since 2014.




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i agree morf, sometimes you cant fix stupid
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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #93 on: January 09, 2017, 01:29:58 AM »
Couple of real colour photos from WWII.





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Re: 40M Nimród.
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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #95 on: January 10, 2017, 08:23:07 AM »
Crusader AA could be another similar option.
A 40mm Bofors fitted to a Crusader tank chassis.

Would be a fast vehicle with good hitting power.
Better than an Osti I think.

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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #97 on: January 29, 2017, 01:01:46 PM »
The vehicle's only armament was a 36M 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun also made in Hungary under license. The gun fired the usual anti-aircraft ammunition as well as a Hungarian anti-tank round. It had a rate of fire of 120 rounds per minute and a penetration of 46 mm at 100 m and 30 mm at 1000 m. The Nimrod carried 160 rounds.

The gun had a practical AAA altitude of 3800m(4155yd).

If Hitech allowed the 4155yd max range in AAA mode, this would make a good perk flak vehicle. And if he gave it HE and AP it would make for an interesting close quarters heart breaker when you didn't see it hiding in a clump of trees. There are very well documented gunsights and reticles for it out there so Waffle wouldn't be in a bind over that.

The real issue is the gun, 36.M was an AA version while the 40.M was the Antitank version. Kind of confusing unless Lyric can shine some light on it.

AP ammo:

The 40 mm 40.M was a standard towed anti-tank gun produced by the Hungarian company of Manfred Weisz AG (MAWAG), which was also used as a tank gun. The weapon was a derivative of the Rheinmetall-Borsig 3.7 cm PaK 35/36, but it fired the same ammunition as the 40 mm Bofors AA-Gun.
40 mm L.70 37.M Bofors/MAWAG Flak    A.P.H.E. 36.M    66 mm
40 mm L.70 37.M Bofors/MAWAG Flak    H.C. 42.M    206 mm
40 mm L.70 37.M Bofors/MAWAG Flak    A.P. 43.M    –
Main armament of 40.M Nimrod self-propelled armoured autocannon. The vehicle was an Hungarian modification of the Swedish Landsverk L-62 (LVKV 40 Anti) which had many basic parts in common with the shorter L-60 light tank. The Nimrod was taken into the Honvedseg (Hungarian Army) as a tank-destroyer, but it proved inadequate against Soviet T-34 tanks. The situation improved when new 43.M ammunition was introduced or when 42.M Kerngranate hollow-charge rounds were fired from the vehicle. Kerngranate was a 15 cm Igr. 39 Hl/A artillery shell H.C. warhead mounted on a fin-stabilized tube. The round had to be inserted into the barrel manually, from the front, and it was fired with a blank cartridge very much like a rifle grenade. A total of 135 Nimrods were built, most of which were deployed by the 51st and 52nd Armoured Autocannon Battalion of the 1st and 2nd Hungarian Armoured Division, respectively. Nimrod batteries attached to armoured and motorized battalions were allocated four vehicles each.
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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #98 on: January 30, 2017, 06:15:23 AM »
Another option for a Perked UBER AA Vehicle, probably the best!

USA M19 MGMC.
M24 Chaffee light tank chassis, would make it fast moving.
TWIN 40mm Bofors would give EXCELLENT punch.

It was deployed in numbers, and used in combat in ETO.
So it would fit the parameters for inclusion in the game!

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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #99 on: January 30, 2017, 12:45:50 PM »
Part of the appeal of this platform for me was that it was in service very early in the war.
When we had three arenas the Nimrod would have been an early war AAA platform plus a tank killer. Since there was no Axis mobile equivalent in game at that time,& it looks as if there wont be other early war arenas best I can tell.

The 40M Nimrod is kind of moot with the Ostwind in game & in AHIII & also no early war tanks in game that it can kill.

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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #100 on: January 30, 2017, 01:00:09 PM »
It would be better than the Ostwind due to better ballistic of the 40mm cannon.
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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #101 on: January 31, 2017, 05:59:05 AM »
It would be better than the Ostwind due to better ballistic of the 40mm cannon.

40mm Bofors had a heavier projectile as well, delivering more explosive damage to the target. USA did so much alteration/improvement on the original M36 guns and ammo, that they were pretty much a different weapon entirely. USA still paid for the Swedish Patent License tho!

A Twin Bofors AA vehicle would be pretty nasty I think.

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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #102 on: January 31, 2017, 12:32:34 PM »

A Twin Bofors AA vehicle would be pretty nasty I think.

No doubt.  :aok

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Re: 40M Nimród.
« Reply #103 on: August 17, 2018, 05:30:13 PM »
The long and the short of the 40M Nimród.



3 time killer in fishnet stocking.






Based off the previous photo above with the drivers position & the armour hood pulled aside.
What the hell is this guy doing in the image below?  :O