German SdKfz9 Transport/Trailer

[Sokol1]

Tanks firing at Planes in the Game....well....

Extract from the book "Over Fields of Fire: Flying the Sturmovik".


http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=28494

...in Otto Carious's book ("TIGERS IN THE MUD") his claims he shot down an allied plane with the 88MM gun of his Tiger:

"On the other hand, we had a lot of trouble with Russian fighters. They 'lurched' past us, almost without a break. That's really the way one has to describe that type of flying. My gunner, Unteroffizier Kramer, can take credit for a deed which was probably unparalleled on the Eastern Front. That is, he succeeded in shooting down a Russian fighter with the tank cannon. Of course, he was also helped by chance. This was how it happened. Kramer, upset by the unrelenting nuisance of these guys, elevated his cannon along the approach route. I talked him in. He took a chance and pulled the trigger. On the seco0nd attempt, he hit one of the 'bees' in its wing. The Russian crashed behind us."

Because of the situation on the front, the group had to move in September to the Staryi Bliznetzy airfield, but the stream of close air support missions continued, as the Axis forces in the sector were under a lot of pressure. When returning from one such mission, on 10 September, a very odd incident ocurred. The 16 Hs-129s were flying very low, as usual, at 10-15 m. From a cornfield, a camouflaged T-34 fired one shot, which cut off a part of the wing of the aircraft of Oblt. Dieter Orth, the German liason officer. The plane hit the ground and exploded instantly.

http://www.worldwar2.ro/arr/g8as.htm

Rare event, of course.

Sokol1

[JG26_EZ]

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[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

The key to your references are the altitudes. Firing at planes that far on the deck can be done by boys with shotguns from farmer's fields, and I have no problem with tanks getting kills on that. Move that up to 300-500m (1000ft+) at speed, and in hand cranked guns for early war tanks and see how possible it is.


50-75% kill rate for a single high speed pass of a JaBo at 250m is probably not accurate, or I doubt there would have been any need for AA vehicles, just use tanks. It would have been a far better kill rate than even the respective airforces could acheive.

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[ICU_DIE535]

Please tell me how you got all those anti Tank guns on the trailor. I suppose you had to edit the .mis file and used the tow/ command for the objects but how did you get more than one gun on the trailor? Please explain or show us the code you used in the .mis file or what ever you did to achieve this.

[JG26_EZ]

S~

All I did was change the z offset for all of the (static) AT guns (in properties, while in the FMB) and moved them into position on the static truck and trailer.

If this doesn't help, let me know and I can elaborate.

[ICU_DIE535]

I see, your using static objects that won't be moving . I thought the SdKfz9 and Trailor were taking those guns somewhere. I understand now.

[JG26_EZ]

Oh, they're going somewhere, they're just on a coffee break I guess

Truth is.. I have no idea how to attach these things.. So far, I can attach a trailer to truck, but I can't manage to attach armor or AT guns to the trailer.

I've asked for help here (<--Click), but no one has answered..

Not too concerned anymore, anyways, because I hear the ClOD project has been scrapped.