Italian Planes

[Lightning Guy]

But your performance goes to pot. Any sort of heavy bomber-destroyer like that will need to be closely escorted by single-seat fighters.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i'd imagine a couple of shots in "quick" succession would almost bring you to a complete stop.......................

 

[cheddar cheese]

i can see it, a P.108A being escorted by 2 MC.205's, could work 8)

 

[plan_D]

Of course Lightning Guy, I was simply making the statment about the gun itself not the plane. You couldn't fire a 102mm cannon awfully quick, but if an A-10 (Warthog) could fire it's cannon for more than 8 seconds it would stall..

 

[Lightning Guy]

Yeah, the recoil on the GAU-8 equals the thrust of one of the A-10s engines! I saw something on tv tonight about the 75mm gun on the B-25G and H. According to witnesses, it looked like the plane stopped when it was fired. I can just imagine what a 102mm weapon would do.

 

[plan_D]

forward 3 metres....FIRE!...back 7 metres

 

[Lightning Guy]

I don't doubt it was pretty close to that.

 

[plan_D]

Neither do I, if I did I wouldn't have said it.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that's why i said "quick" in speech marks, i realise you proberly would be able to make more than one shot per pass, not that you'd have to make more than one pass, 1 hit from a 102mm would sink anything...........

 

[Lightning Guy]

Sink? As in a ship? Not hardly. But if you mean plane, a direct hit probably would, a near miss probably would, but you have to remember the Germans were putting 88mm and 100mm shells right into the heart of American bomber formations and alot of those planes were able to survive the shrapnel damage.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

Sink? As in a ship?

suppose it depends where you hit it.....................

 

[Lightning Guy]

Something unarmorred could be sunk with one 102mm round. A light cruiser could (theoretically) be sunk by a 102mm shell. But I seriously doubt any critical area of a heavy cruiser or battleship would have been vulnerable to a shell that (relatively) small.

 

[plan_D]

I agree with Lightning, although on the German 88mm and 105mm (It was 105, not 100 ), they were Flak guns so, as you know, they blew up. A direct hit from any of them would have taken down anything.

I very much doubt a 102mm cannon could take much down (Ship wise), the guns on the Bismarck were 15 inch, that's 380mm and it took several hits to take down the Hood.

 

[Lightning Guy]

I couldn't remember the exact caliber in mm. I'm used to seeing it referred to as a 4.1in gun. I knew it was somewhere around 100.

 

[plan_D]

You do better than most.

 

[Lightning Guy]

I appreciate that. It seems there are far too few compliments exchanged on this site.

 

[plan_D]

It's because we are always trying to destroy each others ego, not enhance it.

 

[cheddar cheese]

thats true

 

[Lightning Guy]

I can't argue with that.

 

[cheddar cheese]

we have been dubbed anoraks by my friend