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MalkavianMadness (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
Gotta correct myself there on the Dixie suspension part :P dunno why I called it that.. It was the Christie suspension, Developed by american engineer Walter Christie... Anyway apologies for that little Mishap.
MalkavianMadness (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
Could be, but I'm not sure of it. I have however found a few things about a brittish tank that supposingly shot while on the move. It's the brittish made Crusader, which had a very special Dixie suspension, featuring large weels on spring mounted arms. This made the crusader one of the fastest tanks in ww2, sadly it was very unrealiable and broke down a lot. A more succesfull tank that adopted the same suspension was the russian made T-34.
Schlachti10 (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
The First tank with this ability was the german Leopard in the 70s.
sdkfz162kingtiger (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
твою мать!Kingtiger eat all of your shitty vehicles
noblepuker (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
sounds like you've done your homework.I've seen ww2 footage of tanks firing on the move,that's why i made the comment(not sure what models).Thanks for expanding my knowledge on the matter.(salute)
MalkavianMadness (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
So do I ^. ^ To come back on the stationary tank battles, I've been looking into a few details and I think some of the tanks were just physically unable to fire in motion. A good example is the sherman firefly. the tank was outfitted with a brittish made 17 pounder gun which was actually way to large for the small turret, so they dumped the recoil system and made it fixed. this ment they had to equip the cannon with a muzzle break else it would have torn the turret of when it fired.
noblepuker (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
you are correct sir.WW2 tanks would fire into front lines while moving just to stir things up,but as for hitting a specific target....another story.If a gunner could anticipate the rocking motion,he might hit a target at close range with some luck.Like ancient an ancient ship might do on rolling waves,but the pitch on sea would be steady and they were allways in close range.Many good comments here...i love intelligent,mature debate.
xekul (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
Afrika Korps! 5 Stars!
bfahren (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
You are right. Some Shermans at the end of the war were equiped with new developed and not very effective gyroscopes, but they were too few and they came too late.For any other tank to fire on the move, it required the target to be very close and to have a top ace gunner (like Bobby Woll as someone said before) handling the gun.And even then it was a matter of luck.
SopmodJack556762 (January 1, 1970 at 12:59 am)
thanks so much for these clips ;) |
