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Old 08 Jul 07, 07:50
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I've posted this before but it's appropriate for this thread!

Stuka with 37mm guns.
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The JU87G gets my vote.
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What is the love affair with loser tech? Give me the P-47 anyday. Not only can it bust up tanks; it can fight it out with enemy fighters and if shot up can get you home. Honourable mention goes to the IL-2M3.

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achtung baby - great film! I had not seen it before...quite impressive. I cannot argue with success, the G-1 gets my vote as well.
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Seriously, how many tanks were destroyed by the P-47?
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What is the love affair with loser tech? Give me the P-47 anyday. Not only can it bust up tanks; it can fight it out with enemy fighters and if shot up can get you home. Honourable mention goes to the IL-2M3.
The P-47 is my favorite US aircraft but I thought we were talking about dedicated ground attack aircraft.
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Uhm, anything dropping napalm. Napalm was FAR more effective than guns, rockets or bombs in the antitank role as far as aircraft weapons went.
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Uhm, anything dropping napalm. Napalm was FAR more effective than guns, rockets or bombs in the antitank role as far as aircraft weapons went.
July 1944, when it was first used, and not as a tank weapon, hardly contributed the the allied advance would you agree!
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July 1944, when it was first used, and not as a tank weapon, hardly contributed the the allied advance would you agree!
Germany used it before that but launched it using Nebelwerfers.
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Germany used it before that but launched it using Nebelwerfers.
Thanks for the info' any pics of these Nebelwerfers?
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Thanks for the info' any pics of these Nebelwerfers?
They were mounted on Sdkfz 251 halftracks. The one link isn't in English but has some great pictures.

http://wilk.wpk.p.lodz.pl/~whatfor/sdkfz_251_ausf_C.htm

http://www.lemaire.happyhost.org/arm...erie/1811.html

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/rocket/index.html
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Same as you guys, the Stuka #1, with the USSR IL-2 a close #2.
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AFAIK the 23mm cannon did have problems penetrating german tanks, especially in the later years. Hence why they upgraded to 37mm. Which produced a whole slew of other problems.

Apparently the Stuka was a more stable gun platform than the Il-2
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Any rocket armed fighter-bombers should do the trick.
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Any rocket armed fighter-bombers should do the trick.
Not really, the allies had air superiority but still needed their tanks!
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