New anti ship/sub weapon for the mosquito

[papa_smurf]

DEAR GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!.............run and hide

Just go back to the bar, and never leave the sub pen.

[Jimbuna]

Sail along the coast, snorchel for 6 weeks, then return

If you must surface, do it at nite

[gimpy117]

Stop giving more guns to the british!!!!

[Graf Paper]

ASW Aircraft with field artillery mounted?

Putting tank busters on ASW patrols is just plain wrong!

PLEASE tell us you didn't add that B-25 in GWX!

If you see any men in black leather trenchcoats looking for an AWOL Kaleun, just tell them I volunteered for the Eastern Front where life is so much more safe!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to grab my bullhorn and go trot around naked in front of Russian lines while shouting insults about Stalin and the proletariat. At least I can expect to live longer this way.

[CapZap1970]

Originally Posted by Graf Paper

ASW Aircraft with field artillery mounted?

Putting tank busters on ASW patrols is just plain wrong!

PLEASE tell us you didn't add that B-25 in GWX!

If you see any men in black leather trenchcoats looking for an AWOL Kaleun, just tell them I volunteered for the Eastern Front where life is so much more safe!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to grab my bullhorn and go trot around naked in front of Russian lines while shouting insults about Stalin and the proletariat. At least I can expect to live longer this way.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Very true!!!
CapZap

[Hartmann]

Another powerful weapon but is not for british planes

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In 1942, the need for an effective antitank weapon led to the construction of the final variant. The Ju. 87 G-1 was characterized by the installation of two 37 mm BK 3.7 cannons beneath its wings. The cannon proved to be a deadly and effective weapon and the G-1 a stable platform for its role. The cannon weighed 801 lbs (363 kg) and was fed by six-shot loaders. The G-1 was derived from mounting the cannon on a D-5 airframe. Most of these aircraft were used against russia and on the eastern front. It was in this aircraft that hans rudel scored his remarkable record of no fewer than 519 Soviet tanks destroyed .

[Sailor Steve]

The Germans also used a 50mm cannon in the nose of an Me-410 to attack B-17s. Unfortunately the only way to hit one was to sit a precise distance behind the bomber box, which left the attackers very vulnerable to counter-attack by the escorts.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Graf Paper

ASW Aircraft with field artillery mounted?

Putting tank busters on ASW patrols is just plain wrong!

PLEASE tell us you didn't add that B-25 in GWX!

Hi!

The B-25G's successor, the B-25H, was a purpose-built strafing machine, with a 75mm cannon, eight forward-firing 0.50-caliber machine guns, eight 5-inch air-to-ground rockets, and six 500-lb bombs; however, the 75mm cannon was not that successful in either aircraft since the bomber could only get off about four shots on each strafing run, and the gun had a strong recoil. Fortunately for most of you U-boat skippers, it was used primarily in the Pacific to shoot up Japanese cargo ships and ground targets.

B-25s were pressed into service as ASW patrollers off the U.S. east coast during Operation Paukenschlag, but they were the older B-25B, -C, etc., medium bombers with just a single 0.50-caliber machine gun in the nose.

We didn't put the B-25 in GWX this time since we thought rocket-armed B-24's would be enough; however, it seems we may have been mistaken about that...

Pablo

[NealT]

As I recall...both the Hurricane and the Typhoon had some fairly effective tank/sub busting weapons slung from the wings...

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by NealT

As I recall...both the Hurricane and the Typhoon had some fairly effective tank/sub busting weapons slung from the wings...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Pablo

The B-25G's successor, the B-25H, was a purpose-built strafing machine, with a 75mm cannon, eight forward-firing 0.50-caliber machine guns...

Not quite true. It was convertible. It could carry the 75mm gun and four machine guns; or eight machine guns plus side-packs under the cockpit, for a total of twelve; or a glass bombardier's nose.

[Water boy]

For those interested,
These taken at the Mosquito museum just down the road from me, actually its the dehavilland museum.
Its where the 'Mossie' was developed and has a lot of DH aircraft and stuff, there is I'm sure, one of these Tsetse guns there but I didn't take a photo.
Anyhow its really small, without kids who can get into and play pilot in several aircraft, its about 1,5 hrs to see the lot.
Its just off J22 M25, if heading West take the exit, take first left and its half a mile down on the right.
I took a photo of the plaque outside, wrong angle but to get it needed flash and flash in front of stainless = no picture. It did have a prop above it but see the link.

http://www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk/
















If you've watched 633 Squadron where the little scots fella stands next to the pilot leaning casually on the back of his seat - forget it, there's no room........

[Jimbuna]

Great shots....here's one out of the GWX museum (nothing near as cool as yours)

[Sniper_Fox]

AAALAAAAAARMMMM!!!!!