corpcasselbury
Airman
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- Dec 20, 2003
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the lancaster kicks ass said:interesting views, but can i put in a word for the german stuka (junkers ju 87), proberly not best known for this role, and not often used in this role, but it still made a great anti-tank weapon when armed with a pair of 37mm cannon.
my second entry would have to be the american p-51D mustang, also known as the "jet buster" or more appropriatly in this case the "tank buster". Built and designed in the record time of 17 days the p-51 performed well in all fields, as a long range bomber escort, all round fighter, ground attack aircraft, and under the latter, comes the role of tank buster, for which it required it's considerable speed and exelent manouverability, by the time you'd seen one of these coming out of the sun storming down on you with underwing cannon pods, you were as good as dead. 8)
corpcasselbury said:Which of the planes whose business it was to kill tanks was the best? Many will claim it was the Russian Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik.
the lancaster kicks ass said:In return to "corpcasselbury"'s comment regarding the mustang having underwing cannon pods, i saw arcive footage of a mustang with cannon pods on a documentary about ww2 fighters on channel 4, but perhaps they weren't as common as i thaught?