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View Poll Results: Best Anti-Tank Aircraft in World War 2...
Ju 87G-2 (Cannon) 29 19.86%
Hs 129B-2 (Cannon) 17 11.64%
Fw 190F-8 (Panzerblitz 2) 8 5.48%
Me 262A-1a (Panzerblitz 2) 2 1.37%
IL-2M (Cannon) 32 21.92%
Hawker Hurricane Mk IID (Cannon) 10 6.85%
Hawker Typhoon (Rockets) 25 17.12%
Republic P-47D (Rockets) 23 15.75%
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Old 02-23-2008, 11:44 AM   #1
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The Best Anti-Tank Aircraft of World War 2....

One Poll thats missing here is the Tank Killer, so here it is.... The regular thread is quite informative, and I recommend anyone who votes here to read through the previous thread(s) and sducate themselves on some of the information that has been pumped into this site over the years.....

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/avi...inued-625.html (Best Tank Killer of WW2 continued)

Another thread on topic....
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/avi...setup-439.html (Tank Busting Armaments... Whats The Best Setup???)

Tony Woods Site....
TANKBUSTERS: AIRBORNE ANTI-TANK GUNS IN WW2
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Old 02-23-2008, 05:33 PM   #2
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I have to go with the Ju87G on this one...after all Hans-Ulrich Rudel did destroy hundreds of tanks with it...
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Old 02-23-2008, 08:15 PM   #3
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Honourable mention to the Ju-87G, but my choice is the IL-2M, efficient, versatile and deadly.
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I'm gonna say the Hurricane IID because it was brutally effective in North Africa and Tunisia, and if worse came to worse, you still had a plane that performed well enough to run away. Also, I would have given more time for the Brits to develop the 47mm anti-tank gun that they were trying to fit to the Hurricane, or even just the squeeze bore modification for the 40mm, and kept the Hurricanes in service longer.
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Old 02-25-2008, 06:17 PM   #5
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As always, I voted for the Fw 190F-8 Panzerblitz 2... Truly devestating rocket rounds that thwarted many a breakout attempt by the Ruskies.... Fast, maneoverable, armored, a very stable platform....
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well it a hard pick this time but for the love of the ju 87 i got too pick her, she was a very good platform , slow but cant have everything can you
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I also picked the 190F. Doesn't do any good in the weeds if you become a victim to other predators. I have often wondered what the deficiency of the Soviet doctrine was for the Ju 87D to last so long on the east front.

The Stuka was toast in the MTO and ETO after 1943
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I'm going for IL-2M - good, versatile and well armed and armored.

Ju-87G is also a good one, packing a good punch, but wasn't agile.
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Is that a Typhoon or Tempest?
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I'm going with the Hurricane also. Probably would have voted for the P-47 or Typhoon because of their ability to fight there way out of trouble, but I don't like the rocket setup. Somewhere on this board we discussed the accuracy of the rockets being about 5%. I'll take the Hurricane shooting 4 20mm cannons over the rockets and the Hurricane can still fight it's way out of trouble. The Ju-87 and Il-2 were absolutely NOT dogfighters and needed cover to survive.
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Is that a Typhoon or Tempest?
Judging by the thickness of the wing's root section, I'd say it's a Typhoon.
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The Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik known to the German soldiers as "Schwarzer Tod", "Black Death"
And as "Maatalouskone" ("agricultural machine") among the Finns, but IL-2 wasn't a very deadly plane at the Finnish Front.

For example on the 4th June 1943 6-10 IL-2s attacked the Finnish aerodrome at Nurmoila covered by eight fighters. For twenty minutes they strafed, bombed and fired rockets but the only damage was the holes in the runway. [1]

Finns probably shot down more IL-2s than the Iljushins killed Finnish soldiers and equipment. The total number of shot down planes is somewhere in 400 - 450 at the Finnish Front.

[1] T-19282/91. Finnish National Archive Service.
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And as "Maatalouskone" ("agricultural machine") among the Finns, but IL-2 wasn't a very deadly plane at the Finnish Front.

For example on the 4th June 1943 6-10 IL-2s attacked the Finnish aerodrome at Nurmoila covered by eight fighters. For twenty minutes they strafed, bombed and fired rockets but the only damage was the holes in the runway. [1]

Finns probably shot down more IL-2s than the Iljushins killed Finnish soldiers and equipment. The total number of shot down planes is somewhere in 400 - 450 at the Finnish Front.

[1] T-19282/91. Finnish National Archive Service.
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