schwarzpanzer
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- Aug 8, 2005
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schwarzpanzer said:I thought that there was an Italian prototype fighter with it's engine in the back, but it's propellor in front fed by a propshaft (like a Panzer).
Kill the crew???I could just imagine what a high velocity AP shot would do.
lesofprimus said:I think we'd be talking about a huge center of gravity problem here...
cheddar cheese said:Piaggio P.119...
lesofprimus said:BUt it has NOTHING to do with tank busting...
syscom3 said:The B25H with the 75mm cannon had continual problems with the sheetmetal in front working its way loose from this effect.
I could just imagine what a high velocity AP shot would do.
Yes, but which gun?schwarzpanzer said:I don't think short-barreled guns firing HEAT would be effective for tank-busting. Much better would be a long-barreled weapon firing APCBC - the downsides of a 50mm round fired from a tank or Anti-Tank gun could would not be a problem this way.
Gnomey said:The Italians tried (I think) a 105mm in the nose of a P-108.
Yeah, but it's intended to be an anti-ship weapon.Aggie08 said:Didn't the Italians try a large cannon in the nose of a bomber?
the only weapons that seems could be used, were the BK-5 (pratically the same idea of the italian 47mm gun),
with a descouraging rate of fire of 40/50rpm
and over 500 Kg of weight
and the 5 cm Flak, that was built in 50 copies only.
To make a tankbuster the rate of fire is important, like the weight of the gun.
It had "only" 78mm of penetration at 100 m with AP but, with 200 rpm, there was the effective possibility to hit the tank with enough shells to disable it in a single passage.
Aggie08 said:75mm cannon- hand fed and very potent
Twitch said:Schwartzpanzer- the Umbra was illustrated simply because it used a drivshaft system to turn the props. Actually it went one better and had 90 degree u-joints. The tandem V-12s were in the mid-fuselage leaving the nose for weaponry.