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Yes, that's how I understand it...attacking small targets they would peel off one-by-one, following each other. Attacking large targets harbour, village or such they would bunt over and attack in threes
...what does bunt over mean?
Not as unsettling as an ass-full of the enemy's ordnanceThe bunt is not generally a popular manoeuvre because most pilots find negative Gs rather unsettling.
And it's unlikely that most Stuka rear-gunners would be doing much shooting during the actual pull-out. I'm not sure how many G's the Ju 87 typically pulled during the pull-out, but I suspect that it was 5 or more. It would be difficult for the gunner to operate his weapon with any degree of accuracy when under that kind of load
That's a tough one...Again during the early tank battles of the war (WWII) in Belgium and France, if I were say French AA on the ground and a village that the Germans wanted to bomb was directly behind me, do you guys know about how much time between spotting the incoming stukas and being dive-bombed?
The Stukas would dive from 15000ft, or whatever altitude they were cruising at. You need a lot of air to carry out a dive-bombing attack.
In the case of the Bf109, he could push his nose down, roll 180 and shoot away under the pursuing Spitfire who couldn't follow his manoeuvre for the negative g-cut out problem outlined above.