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05-03-2004, 10:12 AM
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| Didn't some of the Hs 129 have a gun designed to fire below and behind that was triggered by flying over a Soviet tank? I think I read that somewhere.
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05-03-2004, 01:16 PM
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Country:  | how would it know what was a soviet and what was a german tank?
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05-03-2004, 02:29 PM
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| Well it would be triggered by passing over a tank. I'm not sure exactly what triggered it. It would be up to the pilot to tell what was Soviet and what was German.
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05-04-2004, 12:29 AM
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Country:  | They were recoil-less rifles (6x 75mm) triggered magnetically by flying over a large lump of metal, ie a tank! and only when armed!
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05-04-2004, 01:12 AM
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| (recoil-less rifles="Bazookas") the guns were triggered by a magnetic field produced when flying over a tank. Fw-190's were also so equipped. so long as we are on the topic of anti tank rockets, didja know that modified R4M's were used to tank bust? Panzerblitz is what they were called. | |
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05-04-2004, 06:32 AM
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Country: | I don't know about the Hs129 with the recoil-less rifle but I know one variant had a 75mm cannon with 12 rounds, and it was facing forward.
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05-04-2004, 07:07 AM
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Country: | C.C, how many rounds did the 102mm cannon on the P.108 have?
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05-04-2004, 10:43 AM
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| The Il-2 carried 32 rounds to each of it's 37mm cannons which is nearly 3 times the ammunition load of a Ju-87G. I had never heard about the R4M being used air-to-ground. I thought that the Me-262 was the only German plane equipped to use them. And wasn't the R4M pretty small, like pencil then?
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05-04-2004, 12:50 PM
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Country: | The Stuka was poor though..so don't bother comparing it unless you want to make a poor plane look good.
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05-04-2004, 01:18 PM
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The Stuka rocks!
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05-04-2004, 01:19 PM
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No it doesn't. 
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05-04-2004, 01:21 PM
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Country: | yeah, it take a very specail weapon to have a cycolidgical effect on your enemy...............
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05-04-2004, 01:24 PM
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Country: | A what effect? A psychological, is that what you meant?
I think any weapon did. Do you think the Londoners enjoyed the Ju88, Do-17 or He111s flying over?
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05-04-2004, 01:36 PM
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Country: | they did enjoy it, but they got used to it after a while, but constant stuka attackes would be terrifying................
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| The sirens on those Stukas must have been absolutely terrifying. Of course, after about '41 or so that sound most likely meant a Stuka was going down in flames rather than on a bomb run.
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