Best ship buster.....

[cheddar cheese]

In your opinions what was the best ship buster of the war? There were many effective planes; the Beaufighter and SM.79 to name a couple.

Discuss

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

swordfish.................

 

[cheddar cheese]

Hmmmmm I forgot the swordfish. I need some more thinking on this one I think, as there were many that were effective

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

there were many that were used for maritime recon. such as the Fw-200, sunderland and B-24, but they didn't "ship bust"

 

[cheddar cheese]

The Condor was used as an anti-shipping bomber actually, I think.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it occasionally bombed merchant shipping but it's primary role was to direct U-boats onto the ships, it tried to stay fay away from enemy fire or action because it had shockingly poor damage tollerance for a 4 engined plane...............

 

[cheddar cheese]

It was used to bomb ships - therefore it is classifie as a ship buster. Any plane that was used to bomb ships of any form counts in this category...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well in that case the sunderland, cat and B-24 are up for this title, as are most planes.........

my vote goes to the Avro lancaster..................

 

[cheddar cheese]

I mean ones that were used at least fairly regularly, the lancaster wasnt exactly best known for this role, as it only destroyed one ship.

 

[Nonskimmer]

I'm not sure how effective they were in this role, but didn't the RAF use a small number of B-17's for antishipping patrols?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

It was used to bomb ships - therefore it is classifie as a ship buster

it sunk the tirpitz, as well as U-boats when in dock, as such, it's busted ships, as such, it's qualifies as a ship buster using you classification.............

my vote remains.............

 

[cheddar cheese]

And even then you think its better than busting ships than a Beaufighter or Sparviero

Ok then, change it to planes that had ship busting as their primary role.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

as such it excludes the sunderland, cat and FW-200...............

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yep. Im saving my vote for when the other have said theirs.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

chances are it's gonna be the p.108.............

 

[lesofprimus]

God I hope not....

 

[cheddar cheese]

Damnit lanc, how did you guess? Im gonna have to find some decent pictures...

 

[evangilder]

When you think of ship-busters, you should really look at the Pacific, as the Navy planes were doing one hell of a job doing that. I would say the TBF/TM Avenger. It was designed to carry torpedoes and bust ships.

There was also a B-25 that was developed in New Zealand by Pappy Gunn and Jack Fox that carried a 75mm cannon on board. That must have been one heck of a jolt when that gun fired! I will have to see if I can dig out the story of it's first use. Three of them attacked some Japanese warships and before the Japanese knew what hit them, a battleship was down.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

hey hey hey, the RAF and FAA sank more than their fair share of enemy shipping as well you know..................

 

[lesofprimus]

I would have to say that more Japanese shipping was sunk by Allies in the Pacific than the European theatre.......