Comments on: Ensign’s Q&A #22

By: EnsignExpendable

EnsignExpendable — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 03:56:35 +0000

Is that why AT instructions tell you to aim for the tank’s center of mass at over 400 meters? The accuracy of the FlaK 36 is not exceptional in any way.

By: Zugloi_Vagany

Zugloi_Vagany — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:18:38 +0000

Yes EE, You are completely right. Sorry I’ve mixed up those Tiger-Aces (Wittmann and Carius) so SerB has also a point. Which I rod about it in a nutshell as follows.
The Tiger of Carius was attacked by two ISU-152. The first one shoot took indeed the right half of the commander’s cupola. But the second ISU-152 shoot the turret … Carius did not knew how hi escaped from the Tiger, but the only remnants of his tank was the headphone which hi wore.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 04:42:37 +0000

Well the 88 FlaK *was* a pretty accurate gun.

By: BAD

BAD — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 03:45:07 +0000

Seen plenty of pics of KV-2′s with neat holes punched through them where the tank crews sat , German gunnery was awesome.
But the modern historian is killing the Germans fighting qualities one article at a time.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 01:56:19 +0000

By that point they’d been dealing with Tigers for some time already; plus as the thing made its combat debut in Operation Citadel (ie. Kursk) with the Ferdinand the Soviets probably weren’t particularly fazed.

By: mobius

mobius — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 01:38:35 +0000

So were Soviets to run and hide when the saw the Brummbar with it’s 150mm howitzer?

By: EnsignExpendable

EnsignExpendable — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 22:01:32 +0000

SU-152s operated in batteries. You are correct to assume that real life isn’t WoT, and nobody was going to sit there and DPM race against an enemy tank.

By: Typhus

Typhus — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 20:03:57 +0000

Ferdi tonk… stronk tonk.

By: FlavioB

FlavioB — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 19:35:08 +0000

Good story. Needs more Soviet stronk, but good story.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 19:11:26 +0000

I understand SOP against enemy tanks was to take up ambush positions and attack with several vehicles at once, as the lenghty reload time was problematic if the first shot missed.