[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by RPS69

I have mixed feelllings withs this, since shelling tanks with bullets will surelly enough shatter the nerves of their crews. Airplanes disturbing an attack, even if they don´t score kills, will diminish the tank crews effectiveness, by making much more difficult to spot enemy firing positions, and keep their commanders ducked in, effectively blinding them.

Since on il-2 minor ground units breakings are not simmulated, because they are absolutely digital, alive/dead, this habit of stopping and trying to fire on low flying aircraft with the main gun of tanks is not that bad. Yow really give a better chance to defending positions on destroying the attacking tanks by getting them distracted from their original "purpose", and exposing them to ground AT fire for some more time.

Maybe it could be arranged for tanks to change their moving behavior while threatened by aircraft, but don´t try to shoot at aircraft. Something similar to the code implemented on trucks that made peolple run out of them. They allready have something like that since they change their line formation to a diamond shapped one when being attacked by air, or when they get on gun range with any enemy ground position, and they are not on a road.

Still though.. Iagree with Thor.. and the odds of actually hitting a moving aircraft with a tank round even a big slow moving bomber.. were miniscule..