I would happily discard uboatarchive.net's data at all but I suspect that, applying directly to Uboats, their information is lesser generic than the average figures provided by other sources.
You are probably right that their data can be applied much more specifically to u-boats than information found in most of our other sources. I wish there were sources listed for their figures.
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yes, I have currently set 3 types of 2cm shells: HEI-T, HEI (the famous Minengeschoss) and APHE-T. My original plan was making HEI / APHE-T (1:1 proportion) to replace HEI-T ammunition after mid June '43. Unfortunately all my tests with gun ammo availability dates failed miserably; however, we can differentiate ammo loadouts for each gun and, as a compromise, we can give later guns late ammo outfit. This is not the best option indeed, but still better than nothing.
While not a perfect solution, I think this is quite acceptable. AA armament changed very little for the first three years of the war, but then evolved rapidly in 1943, just when many of the new shells were also entering operational service.
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Good video. I like especially the smoking muzzles, I didn't think that small caliber guns could have produced that mutch smoke lol. I will make 2cm tracer's trails much longer and narrower, and I will try mimicing that smoke.
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By the way, here's another good video (original color footage!), showing U-boat's armamaments in action: torpedoes, deck gun, and what I think is a single Flak C/30. Just skip to 2:16
Wow, thanks for that video. I am tempted to say it was "cool," but that's not quite the right word for it. "Intense" is maybe better. There must be lots of great U-boat footage hidden away in archives around the world. It would be really interesting to know which boats were depicted in those film clips and whether they were shot spontaneously or for propaganda purposes.
03-25-13, 12:05 AM
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