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Interesting Article for WWII Aircraft Buffs
Gawdzilla Sama Offline
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RE: Interesting Article for WWII Aircraft Buffs
October 27, 2016 at 5:04 pm
(October 27, 2016 at 6:10 am)Atheist_BG Wrote:
(May 5, 2015 at 7:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/28...tail=email
Quote:Let me know if you find articles about WW2 tanks in English. Preferably about KV-2, JagdPanther 2, M12, FV304, SturmTiger and KV-4. Tongue
I don't know planes and I don't like planes. I find them boring, at best. A flying piece of junk with a calliber smaller than a regular Glock. Please...
You'll remember that the Tigers met up with USN cruisers in Sicily, and became so much junk. 
But, please, how many ground attack airplanes in the era under discussion had guns with "a calliber smaller than a regular Glock"?
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RE: Interesting Article for WWII Aircraft Buffs
October 30, 2016 at 12:14 pm
(October 27, 2016 at 6:10 am)Atheist_BG Wrote: Let me know if you find articles about WW2 tanks in English. Preferably about KV-2, JagdPanther 2, M12, FV304, SturmTiger and KV-4. Tongue
I don't know planes and I don't like planes. I find them boring, at best. A flying piece of junk with a calliber smaller than a regular Glock. Please...

Huh, 50 caliber, 20mm, 30mm, 37mm, up to 75mm were bigger than any glock I know.

Jadgepanther 2 and kv-4 were largely fictional.

I bet many more tanks were destroyed by airplanes than airplanes by tanks.

A tank is just a lump of inert steel with 4-5 real suckers inside, waiting to be turned into Swiss cheese by some pilot who's got nothing better to do on a slow afternoon.
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RE: Interesting Article for WWII Aircraft Buffs
October 30, 2016 at 11:47 pm
(October 30, 2016 at 12:14 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: up to 75mm were bigger than any glock I know.

75mm guns? On planes? Are you sure you're not talking about freaking rockets? Tongue

I mean. . . damn!
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RE: Interesting Article for WWII Aircraft Buffs
October 31, 2016 at 5:56 am (This post was last modified: October 31, 2016 at 5:57 am by Gawdzilla Sama.)
(October 30, 2016 at 11:47 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(October 30, 2016 at 12:14 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: up to 75mm were bigger than any glock I know.

75mm guns?  On planes?  Are you sure you're not talking about freaking rockets? Tongue

I mean. . . damn!

Some B-25s in the SWPA (MacArthur's turf in WWII) packed 75s. Typhoon and P-47s fired 5" rockets in the ETO.
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RE: Interesting Article for WWII Aircraft Buffs
October 31, 2016 at 8:19 am
Modern Ac-130s packs 105mm howitzers plus several 40mm bofors. Glock that.
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RE: Interesting Article for WWII Aircraft Buffs
October 31, 2016 at 7:14 pm
(May 5, 2015 at 7:39 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(May 5, 2015 at 7:34 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Poo !!

They left out the Brewster Buffalo !!!

Buffalo was the only fighter in the world that actually looked like a lumbering ground dwelling herbivore.   That its pudgy fuselage could actually rise into the air on those tiny wings is a minor miracle. 
(May 5, 2015 at 7:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/28...tail=email

I dispute the assertion any of those aircraft can be considered overlooked.   Hurricane?  Bf-110, wildcat, b-24 liberator, overlooked?  You've gotta be kidding me.  

For some real overlooked aircraft, how about indigenous Romanian IAR 80?

Have to agree with you on the Hurricane at least. In the UK it's almost as famous as the Spitfire.
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