MrSpkr Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 Has anyone ever had it take out a medium tank - a Stug or mark IV, for example? How close do you have to get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalem Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 I dropped a round on my foot once. It hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Commissar Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Mark IV's, multiple times from the rear. Armored Cars get chewed up like nobody's business. Took out a Hetzer once too, again from the rear. Summary: Its a pretty damn powerful gun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Hofbauer Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 I've had 50cals take out Pz IV and Jagdpz IV from the rear, point-blank range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcm1947 Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Seems I've taken out just about everything at one time or another with the old .50 Cal. but probably not the big cats like Panther or Tiger. Can't really remember the distance however. It's a powerful weapon though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acrashb Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Originally posted by MrSpkr: Has anyone ever had it take out a medium tank - a Stug or mark IV, for example? How close do you have to get?To put it in real-world perspective, the 7.62NATO round has about 2600ft-lbs of energy at the muzzle, and it can penetrate the sides of modern APC's with armour-core or even just full metal jacket. The .50BMG has on the order of 14000ft-lbs of energy at the muzzle. In game turns, rear penetrations of MkIV's are possible, as others have noted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaSCa Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 If I remember my History Channel, the .50 cal was designed during or just after The Great War as an AT gun. It also had AP rounds. I'm sure that a .50 cal grog will chime in soon to elaborate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalem Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Originally posted by CaSCa: If I remember my History Channel, the .50 cal was designed during or just after The Great War as an AT gun. It also had AP rounds. I'm sure that a .50 cal grog will chime in soon to elaborate.Balloon buster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patgod Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 loosing mkIV's to fighter bombers .50's pisses me off to no end. survive the 250kg, survive the rocket runs, then die to a bloody machine gun....grrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Panzer Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 ...if anecdotes from a video game are what you seek, here is another: ...i once gawked at one of my 14th Cav. m20's sideswipe a hetzer on a muddy ardennes road - the gunner loosed several point blank bursts into the top/side/rear of the inadvertently attached tank destroyer knocking it out. what's more, the m20 gunner, without hesitation, proceeded to cut down the german crew as they attempted to crawl from the hatch of their vehicle. ...christ, even in the antiseptic world of combat mission, the little scene was strikingly brutal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak40 Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 A true testament from the power of the Ma-Duce From Black Hawk Down, page 147 paperback ed.: There were plenty of targets to shoot at. Up in the turret, Pringle unloosed the .50 cal on a group of armed Somalis. Schilling watched as one of them, a tall, skinny man wearing a bright yellow shirt and carrying an AK-47, came apart as the big rounds tore through him. Deep read blotches apeared on his yellow shirt. First an arm came off. Then the man's head and chest exploded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White4 Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Lets just say that Bluekrainian T8s have no chance vs my Redsylvanian STUGs. And did I happen to mention my reactive armor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_argie Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Originally posted by White4: Lets just say that Bluekrainian T8s have no chance vs my Redsylvanian STUGs. And did I happen to mention my reactive armor?Keep spreading our secrets! What was said about military intelligence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lipperd98 Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 I was in the infranty in the US Army the 50.cal is a bad weapon with AP rounds at 1200 meters it can penetrate up to 11/2 inches of steel if shot in one spot in the same area with AP rounds it could penetrate more but your gunner better be damn! good!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splinty Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Originally posted by Lipperd98: I was in the infranty in the US Army:)So was I,who were you with? Totally agree on the effects of the .50. [ May 15, 2002, 06:23 AM: Message edited by: Splinty ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kekk1 Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 A 50cal is quite handy when taking out a lawn mower. http://koti.mbnet.fi/kekk/50cal.mpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted May 15, 2002 Author Share Posted May 15, 2002 Originally posted by Kekk1: A 50cal is quite handy when taking out a lawn mower. http://koti.mbnet.fi/kekk/50cal.mpgNow THAT is the answer I was looking for! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Hofbauer Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 That video clip is not valid reference material. The URL is finnish which suggests that the 50cal was operated by a finnish crew. ow, remember what the Suomi did to russian KV-1s armed with nothing but tree logs and woolen caps, and you might get a faint idea of what they're able to do when armed with a MaDeuce. That lawn mower, model BFT-5000 "Voroshilovisko", would withstand anything except a finnish-operated 50cal. Don't be so naive to think that your 50cal could do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dutton Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 The question is: Does CMBO model Lawn Mowers properly and will it be fixed in CMBB? I understand that the Soviets tended to operate their Lawn Mowers in brigade size units Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannheim Tanker Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 I suppose we can expect gamey lawn-mower rushes in CMBB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Originally posted by M Hofbauer: ow, remember what the Suomi did to russian KV-1s armed with nothing but tree logs and woolen caps, and you might get a faint idea of what they're able to do when armed with a MaDeuce.It's commonly thought that Hiroshima was due to an atomic bomb. The special weapons and tactics squad of the Finninsh army that volunteered for duty in the Pacific with Allied forces after the end of the war in Europe is strangely missing from accounts of the war... Need I say more? Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeknodathon Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Of course, armour sloping will affect the penetrating power of the .50 cal. Yeknod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 A 50 cal could rip a poodle's face right off! Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 Originally posted by Gyrene: A 50 cal could rip a poodle's face right off!And a good job too! Poor Fifi... Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalem Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 Originally posted by Mannheim Tanker: I suppose we can expect gamey lawn-mower rushes in CMBB.Could I expect one tomorrow in my yard? It's getting kind of tufty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts