Comments on: On WT E-100 once again

By: Iron_Tsunami

Iron_Tsunami — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:12:14 +0000

ROFL

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:48:38 +0000

Not to mention enough fuel to keep them flying

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:59:19 +0000

The US was a bit doctrinally stuck on the .50 BMG for its aircraft guns for variety of reasons, and only followed the general practice of changing over to autocannon relatively late. Granted such would have been a mite bulky for bomber self-defense anyway, but then again it also turned out making the plane really fast instead was such an excellent defense onboard armament was a moot point.

That said, AFAIK Luftwaffe pilots did NOT like attacking the bomber “combat boxes” and the Germans went to quite some lenght and ingenuity in trying to devise ways to shoot the damn things down from standoff distances instead.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:52:56 +0000

“Ramirez! Take one for the team!”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:50:57 +0000

Cannot unsee!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:49:56 +0000

Actually it was a remark made by a newspaper reporter upon seeing all the machine guns on the original prototype, which Boeing then trademarked as the official name. That being said, those machine guns weren’t quite as effective in practice as they seemed to be in theory.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:47:56 +0000

Nah the TOG II* is already known as the “Compensator”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:46:57 +0000

“Enemy Tactical Nuke incoming! It’s over!”

*Everyone starts TKing each other*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:45:12 +0000

I myself prefer “Waffletraktor” E-100, but that’s just me (they call the Leichtraktor the “Loltraktor”, so I’m keeping it consistent here).

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 18:19:20 +0000

…are you STILL clueless about what was the point of the copypasta composite?