 | Best anti-shipping aircraft?| Aviation Discuss Best anti-shipping aircraft? in the World War II - Aviation forums; Heres a Japanese corvette getting attacked yet again by the 345th BG. This was in the Tsushima Straights on Aug ... |
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09-14-2005, 09:52 PM
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| Heres a Japanese corvette getting attacked yet again by the 345th BG. This was in the Tsushima Straights on Aug 8 1945.
Notice the plane has dropped its bomb way wide of the ship. Also note the gun crew in the front manning their gun.
Second pix is from a following plane which caught a bomb going off amidships. The Gun crew is still at their posts.
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09-15-2005, 08:24 PM
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| Not sure on this one, but didn't the FW Condor sink billions of tons of allied shipping, is that the best?
Also it looks nice and IIRC carried a HS294  | |
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09-16-2005, 06:18 AM
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Country:  | I don't think the allies ever had billions of tons of shipping to sink in the first place Sch-panzer but im staying with the Swordfish and a approximate tonnage based on monthly kill figures of very roughly, around 2 million tonnes total ( including subs and capital ships ) .
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09-16-2005, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by schwarzpanzer Not sure on this one, but didn't the FW Condor sink billions of tons of allied shipping, is that the best?
Also it looks nice and IIRC carried a HS294 | If you want to include the ships sunk by subs and other German a/c that had been directed to convoys by the recon Fw200s, OK. | |
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09-16-2005, 10:35 AM
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Country: | Im think in terms of UK billions KK 2 million million not 2 thousand million
but even then I dont think our merchant fleets ever had that tonnage of shipping of either amount.
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09-16-2005, 12:58 PM
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#96 | | the old Sage
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Country:  | thought I would throw this pic in. lower gunners position with the twin MG 81Z ~ Ju 88A ?
a little ebay scan | |
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09-16-2005, 03:43 PM
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#97 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | Yeah but I still dont think a billion tons were sunk.
__________________  US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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09-16-2005, 03:50 PM
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#98 | | the old Sage
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Country: | I have never seen any concise, true figures of the amount of shipping sunk by the German Luftwaffe ............. it's anybody's guess | |
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09-16-2005, 03:51 PM
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#99 | | the old Sage
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Country: | hey just noted..............is that zwei Flammenwerfer below the tail ?
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09-16-2005, 04:13 PM
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#100 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Looks like it to me. Atleast it looks like the flame throwers in the pictures that I have in my book. I believe it was called the GERO FmW-51 Flame-thrower. The tubes led to supply tanks and each tank held 120 ltrs of Flammoel 19. It was a mixture of light and heavy coal-tar oil that was fired out of the tanks at 21 atmosphere nitrogen pressure. The project was discontinued by mid-1941 because it just did not work out they way they had hoped. The flame only reached out 40m.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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09-17-2005, 02:04 AM
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#101 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | they tried mounting them to -88s in the BoB didn't they??
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09-17-2005, 04:34 AM
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#102 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | I dont know if it ever entered operational status. I think it was only in testing but it was about the time of the BoB.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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09-17-2005, 10:47 AM
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| Ok, so now that we have some interesting comments here, whats the 2nd rounds of comments for which was the anti-shipping plane of WW2?
B25
SBD
Mousie
Beaufighter
A20
Condor
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09-17-2005, 10:50 AM
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#104 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | I think pretty much everyone has allready agreed on the Dauntless, B-25, Beaufighter or Condor.
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09-17-2005, 10:53 AM
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#105 | | the old Sage
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