Recent content by tomo pauk

I'd say that our newest forum additions - Mr. Banana and Mr. Buz - are doing their best to prop up this place. Thank you.

I've probably suggested it earlier, but anyway: the 88L/56 as an anti-tank gun in a towed or self-propelled flavor. As a quick fix, installed on the 10.5cm howitzer mount; should be less of an awkward thing than the 88L/71. Yes, still very much a brute, but not the brute of the 17pdr, let alone...

100%. Even further - with 30mm of two types sticking out, having the 20mm is an exercise in futility. To be fair, the 1000 m/s requirement died when the switch from 20 to 30mm happened. 1000 m/s will be easy to achieve with the Flak 20mm ammo and a 92g shell (my guess is that they did exactly...

The ordnance of the single-shot 3.7cm (German) and 4cm (Czech) AA guns would've been doing okay as the anti-tank guns. The 4cm type was operationally used just by the interwar Yugoslavia, and was firing a powerful shell: 0.95 to 1 kg at 950-945 m/s (ie. in-between the pre- and post-war 40mm...

A 'quazi-APCR' shot for the 10.5cm howitzer. Uses the Pzgr.39 from the 7.5cm guns as parts donor:

I haven't suggested the revolver cannon, but something more ... 'classic'. Talk 'big 108' or 'baby 103'. The 20x135, even with it's MX shell, was still too weak vs. a decent 30mm, hence the drive towards the 213C 30 mm sibling. The Fw will need to wait until the MK 103 is redesigned for the...

My take: - A weapon being (very) heavy is a not a minor drawback - The MK 103 was unsuitable as a motor cannon (as well as it's predecessor, the MK 101) until the 103 was redesigned, by what time it was too late - Ammo being of the size it was reduced the number of rounds carried by a large...

I can't give a Double bacon, or a Triple bacon, so it is just the ordinary Bacon for you, Bill.

Even if not better than any other fighter the Allies had, it would've combined good turn of speed with the long range.

Combine the two (801S + external air intakes) + delete the two HMGs = equivalent of the Fw 190D-9 performance-wise. It would've been very useful on all altitudes. Granted, a Fw 190 tailored for the Eastern front can do just fine with the internal intakes. In theory (indeed, all of this is just...

They already have more cubes.

To show just how much the 5cm pak and it's tank-going counterpart were under-powered, I've bashed together some crude graphs for the APCBC shots. Original is same as above. The blue and magenta lines are for the worst-case and best-case 6pdr APCBC shots, respectively (data from here). Red is for...

Yet another table dealing about the AP performance, this time the German 75mm stuff. Some things might be interesting, like the suggested usage of the 75mm HEAT ammo on the Pak 41 (perhaps just once per gun :) ), or the AP capabilities of the Pak 41 soft-steel shot, the PzGr. 41 (W). That is...

I'm not sure how much of this is worth to you, but: I value your input, and I think that you have the ducks in the row (to borrow a phrase from across the pond). Unlike me, you are a quality addition to the forum-folk ;) Keep up the good work.

Instead the BMW 801, have the 2-stage engines use the high octane fuel. OTOH, the German 2-stage engines (besides the DB 605L) were using the 87 oct fuel. Not every engine was a small engine, like the Merlin or V-1710, that needed every droplet of the boost to perform great.