Deck Guns and Aircraft

[Kip Chiakopf]

Does anyone know if deck guns will engage aircraft, or is it only AA guns?

[frau kaleun]

Well, since you can't order the crew at the flak guns to shoot at a ship, but can take control of them manually to do so, I would say the same might go for the deck gun... meaning, you couldn't get the crew to shoot at a plane with one, but you could man it yourself and aim at any target you chose.

Altho I'm betting your chances of actually hitting a plane with a deck gun are slim and none. They're hard enough to get a bead on with the flak guns.

[Maky]

!!!COMPETITION TIME!!!

First person to upload video footage of them self downing an aircraft with heavy deck gun wins my Type VII U-Boat.
P.S - Winner must collect. moored on the river Trent near Farndon, Newark

!!! Good Luck All !!!

[Madox58]

You can take an AirShip down with the Deck Gun!
jimbuna has the video but I can't find it right now!

[Gerald]

You can take an AirShip down with the Deck Gun!
jimbuna has the video but I can't find it right now! Pictures or it never happened,:cool:

[Madox58]

Jim is going to re-upload tomorrow.
I already PM'ed him about it.
:D

[Gerald]

Jim is going to re-upload tomorrow.
I already PM'ed him about it.
:D You found yourself quickly there ... a smokescreen spread among the trees, :|\\

[Jimbuna]

Jim is going to re-upload tomorrow.
I already PM'ed him about it.
:D

Yeah...and I'm not all that far away from Newark :03:

[Jimbuna]

You found yourself quickly there ... a smokescreen spread among the trees, :|\\

Haven't a clue what that's supposed to mean :doh:

I've also a video of a surface engagement with a ghost ship that fires back :smug:

[Obltn Strand]

You can take an AirShip down with the Deck Gun!
jimbuna has the video but I can't find it right now!

:hijacked: Is it worth attacking airships with any/all available armament?
Those things were supposed to be filled with hydrogen during ww2.

[frau kaleun]

You can take an AirShip down with the Deck Gun!
jimbuna has the video but I can't find it right now!

Pictures or it never happened,:cool:

I have seen the video, scout's honor! :yep:

[Sailor Steve]

scout's honor! :yep:
Would you like to buy some girl scout cookies?

[frau kaleun]

Would you like to buy some girl scout cookies?

No.












But I'd love to eat some. :haha: Those little... what are they, lemon shortbread things? ZOMG...

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff202/cosmic_04/homer-drool.gif

[Sailor Steve]

No.
BZZZZZT! Wrong answer! :O:

[Gargamel]

Haven't a clue what that's supposed to mean :doh:

:

That goes for half the things he says! :) :P

And I thought they got rid of hydrogen after the hindenberg accident. I would hope even the densest designers would think that filling a very large bag with a very explosive gas would be bad in wartime.

[Jimbuna]

:hijacked: Is it worth attacking airships with any/all available armament?
Those things were supposed to be filled with hydrogen during ww2.

http://centennialofflight.gov/essay/Lighter_than_air/Airships_in_WWII/LTA10.htm

[Jimbuna]

That goes for half the things he says! :) :P

And I thought they got rid of hydrogen after the hindenberg accident. I would hope even the densest designers would think that filling a very large bag with a very explosive gas would be bad in wartime.

Surely you can't say that of the BBC :DL

[Sailor Steve]

And I thought they got rid of hydrogen after the hindenberg accident. I would hope even the densest designers would think that filling a very large bag with a very explosive gas would be bad in wartime.
The designers of Hindenburg were not dense. In fact they wanted to use helium, but at the time the United States was the only nation in the world which could manufacture helium, and we weren't about to sell to Germany considering the use zeppelins had been put to in the previous war. For Hindenburg it was hydrogen or nothing.
http://www.unmuseum.org/hindenburg.htm

As for more recent gasbags, no comment.

[Obltn Strand]

:hijacked: Is it worth attacking airships with any/all available armament?
Those things were supposed to be filled with hydrogen during ww2.

http://centennialofflight.gov/essay/Lighter_than_air/Airships_in_WWII/LTA10.htm

Only one airship was lost to enemy action. A surfaced German U*boat shot down the airship K-74 during a battle, but the K*74 damaged the German submarine so badly that it could not submerge and was sunk by British bombers in the North Sea while it was en route to Germany for repairs.
Quess not.
I thought couple of flak rounds and huge ball of fire.

[Sailor Steve]

:hijacked: Is it worth attacking airships with any/all available armament?
Those things were supposed to be filled with hydrogen during ww2.
US airships never used anything but helium.

[Gerald]

Haven't a clue what that's supposed to mean :doh:

I've also a video of a surface engagement with a ghost ship that fires back :smug: My reply was directed to Jeff, and not you ... so I understand that you have no track, :arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

Jim is going to re-upload tomorrow.
I already PM'ed him about it.
:D

Picking a fight with a blimp:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21044910/Airship2_avi

I'll dig out the ghost ship that fights back.

[Obltn Strand]

US airships never used anything but helium. I knew US had it during the ww2 but with that quantity. Pretty secret stuff too. IIRC helium had security clasification one below a-bomb.

[Madox58]

Ah Crap.
:nope:

I thought you had a deck gun fireing on the K-Ship.

Getting old I guess.
:-?

[Jimbuna]

Ah Crap.
:nope:

I thought you had a deck gun fireing on the K-Ship.

Getting old I guess.
:-?

LOL :DL

[Jimbuna]

The ghost ship (Flying Dutchman)

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21044936/Flying_Dutchman_avi