Steve Snake Driver

I find it odd that range affected penetration results of the German and American bazooka's tested against the captured German tank. Penetration shouldn't be affected whether the round is traveling 5 feet per second or 1000 fps.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by K_Tiger: And back to the .50cal thing and his qualitis, the german decided, "20mm lost the ability to made mutch harm to figthers" Need to hear the stats from Allied HQ`s about the same thing and his 50.cal. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I would suggest that the reference is a little flawed. By the period of the game, German fighters were more concerned with destroying Allied bombers, hence the upgunning of fighter aircraft. .50 cal worked just fine shooting down fighter aircraft as P-51's, and P47's proved.

HowardB, Compared to that ammo box, (not to mention a 30 foot long room is a very uncommon thing)the lathe/plaster of a typical wall wouldn't stand a chance behind one of those things. I would be surprised if the room DIDN'T catch fire from a bazooka type weapon fired from it.

Hate to admit this but it sounds like I may be the only one who's actually fired a bazooka. While going through basic training as a reservist, we spent a weekend familiarizing weapons that reserve/guard units had. While this was the 3.5 inch (if my memory is correct) two things still stick with me from that experience 1) For a rocket launcher it had quite a quick. Guess there is lots of friction between the tube and the rocket. Thought I was gonna have a black eye 2) Before we fired it, the drill sgts set a wooden ammo box upright about 10 yards behind the firing line. One of the sgts then proceeded to fire the bazooka while the box was behind him. The backblast obliterated the ammo crate...literally. The demo certain kept us trainees clear of the back of the things.

Actually, rockets can be accurately fired from diving aircraft. I've got a 7 or 8 volume set of reprints of a magazine that was published for Allied aircrews during WWII (classified at the time). In one issue, there is an article detailing an on the ground study of aircraft vs armor engagement the day following the attack. (This very early in the Normandy campaign while rockets were still somewhat experimental in the anti armor role). One Panther killed by an HE shot through the rear deck, a MK IV soft kill by becoming bogged/abandoned after trying to go around the dead Panther, and a disabled STUG. This from a flight of aircraft (number not mentioned). It did mention that the gentlemen that got the Panther was a Brit flying a P-47 (British rocket expert on loan).

While the Russian contribution to defeating the Axis powers was quite large, I think some people are missing the fact that the Western Allies were also engaged on a separate front that was resource and material hungry...the war against Japan.