Comments on: Ensign’s Q&A #16 http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Ensign’s Q&A #17 | For The Record http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/#comment-70845 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:21:50 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=4289#comment-70845 [...] Here’s another batch of questions, fresh from tankarchives@gmail.com! Previous edition can be found here. [...]

]]> By: EnsignExpendable http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/#comment-63733 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:27:40 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=4289#comment-63733 Mhm, and that’s why the Tigerfibel instructs you to fire at a target at 800 meters, and even Otto Carius bragged that he would engage at 900.

]]> By: YOBA http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/#comment-63308 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:51:42 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=4289#comment-63308 From Pasholok.

]]> By: sayso http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/#comment-62994 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:47:29 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=4289#comment-62994 “SerB said that German tankers claiming kills at 2.5 km were either accidents or made up stories”
Sure … and Serb is living in the past, prefering stalins memories of “the great patriotic war” for the only valid sources. Kill shots over 1km were business as usual for heavy anti-tank gun batteries and Tiger tanks. It’s documented by many different international sources… the only denier are the RU. The accuracy of the Tiger1 gun for 1st shot-hit at 2km was 90% at training and 60% in Combat. -> see Schneider / Jentz / Spielberger / Doyle … or an extraction of it http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3722

]]> By: Zinegata http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/#comment-62758 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 06:41:20 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=4289#comment-62758 The real reason why any kills over 2km were “accidents” however, is the fact that German doctrine actually discourages long ranged shooting. Even if hits can be achieved, German records show that the hit rate drops significantly at longer ranges, requiring ten or even more shots to achieve a hit at ranges over 1 km.

In general, the preference for the Wermacht was to fire at less than 1 km range, to maximize the number of kills vs ammunition usage.

]]> By: cwjian90 http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/#comment-62748 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 05:23:12 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=4289#comment-62748 German crews were officially forbidden from taking extreme long range shots late in the war precisely because it was considered wasteful of ammunition.

]]> By: EnsignExpendable http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/#comment-62720 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:21:45 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=4289#comment-62720 Where did you get this from, then? VIF?

]]> By: YOBA http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/#comment-62674 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:29:23 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=4289#comment-62674 Original owner – Pasholok :P

]]> By: Sl8 http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/#comment-62666 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:06:20 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=4289#comment-62666 Oh well, it was a faint hope anyway. We’ll just see if they manage to balance it.
Once again, thank you EE and keep up the great work with this series. It’s one of my favorite on FTR.

]]> By: EnsignExpendable http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/14/ensigns-qa-16/#comment-62492 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:48:36 +0000 http://ftr.wot-news.com/?p=4289#comment-62492 Not impossible, just extremely improbable. Machine gun nests don’t move around. Tanks do. After a few ranging shots, your target would very likely notice you and move away. Or a closer enemy notices you firing and decides to help out its buddy. Or an artillery spotter calls in a strike. The battlefield isn’t a very static place.

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