Best tank killer aircraft of WW2

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How did anyone come to the conclusion the Stuka was good?

It attacked France and Britain in mass numbers and with supporting 109s was effective but it was slow, under-gunned and under-armoured. They got ripped to pieces when the British fighters were there. As dive bombers they did their job, but they didn't do it well compared to others.
As ground attack planes, they were out-classed by nearly everything, Henschel 129, Typhoon, Tempest, Sturmovik, Hurricane IV..the list could go on.
The 37 mm cannons put under the Stuka were good at anti-tank role if there were nothing else in the sky or no AA on the ground. Which is always unlikely.
 
I meant the Hurricane IID, although I imagine the Hurricane IV would have been quite good against troops and softs, after all it did have twelve .303 guns. But this is tank killers, so, IID.
 
Well i think Kiwi is convinced its a good plane because of this 'Rudel' bloke he keeps going on about - but Kiwi is wrong most of the time so we don't pay any attention to him usually 8)

(joke!)
 
I think the answer to this partiular threads question has to be: any plane that WASN'T a Ju87 Stuka!!



(I LOVE these emoticons!)
 
ive always liked the colon : its a happy fellow and the basis for most smileys 8) anyway, getting back on topic, the il2 adthe tiffy were good ground attacks, unlike a certain german plane...... *cough* stuka *cough*
 

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