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Focke Wulf 190 Strafing American Troop and Convoys

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    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:24 PM

A question from the OP about damage.

No. 1; The aircraft is going four or five miles per minute, or say 500 feet per second. The claimed rate of fire of an MG 151 was 750 rpm. That's 11 or 12 rps. The math suggests that a shell hits the ground every 50 feet. Assuming he's using both inboard cannons, thats every 25 feet. Now there's everything wrong with the above math, but you get the idea.

The Germans considered 4 or 5 hits on a B-17 really good results.

They also used explosive shells usually.

 I have a good set of pictures of an aircraft that survived getting hit by a cannon shell in the cockpit. In this particular case the target was moving fast and the cannon was stationary. But a cannon shell fired from a fast moving aircraft at a stationary targer will have some of the same effects.

One hit, entry hole about the size of a basketball. Then it blew up inside the aircraft and tore the IP and the pilot up.

Don't do the Snoopy doghouse stitch holes look. If you want to show a soft skin hit, punch one big ragged hole in the sheet metal.

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Bam
  • Member since
    February 2018
Posted by Bam on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:44 PM

Plenty of images of aircraft hit by 20mm rounds. Just stretch that to a truck.

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    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Friday, February 23, 2018 1:37 AM

Bam

Plenty of images of aircraft hit by 20mm rounds. Just stretch that to a truck.

 

Trucks are built a little more solid than aircraft. A Jeep is gonna be from a thicker gauge of sheet metal than aircraft aluminum. A WC series 3/4 Ton is made more stoutly, and a Deuce  1/2 even more so. Mind you a 20mm hit will tear up each type of truck, but to differing degrees. Especially in the cargo area. Just think of a Fosters can compared to a Coke can. 

 

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  • Member since
    October 2006
  • From: Tucson, AZ
Posted by Archangel Shooter on Friday, February 23, 2018 3:52 PM

 I knew a Lufftwaffe pilot whose squadron provided top cover for the Tirpitz. One day, he told me how they would go up and chase away the Lancasters till the day the Brits were sucessfull in diverting the fighters. He told me that he got back to the fiord where the ship was anchor at the moment she started rolling over. He and others in his unit were going to be court martial but after a couple week, the higher up's calmed down and realized there was nothing the pilots could have done and they were return to flight status. I always enjoyed chatting with the WW-II vets, Americans and German, it was listening to living history. And sadly the ones I knew are all gone now.

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 On the bench: So many hanger queens.

 

 

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