Topic: Was watching a old war film and have you ever notice  (Read 7522 times)

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SL-Punisher

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Re: Was watching a old war film and have you ever notice
« Reply #60 on: February 27, 2004, 12:58:58 pm »
The basic design remained the same regardless of what it was used for. Sterioscopic range finding for ships, or hand cranked ballastics computers for AAA role....those were basically add ons.

AAA crews often trained in the AT role and vice versa.

TB613

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Re: Was watching a old war film and have you ever notice
« Reply #61 on: February 27, 2004, 03:23:23 pm »
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The basic design remained the same regardless of what it was used for. Sterioscopic range finding for ships, or hand cranked ballastics computers for AAA role....those were basically add ons.

AAA crews often trained in the AT role and vice versa.  




The Wehrmacht Flak crews were trained in the AT role from at least May / June of 1940. Rommel employed them against the superior French armor particularly when  Le Clerc, de Gaulle, or one of the other forward thinking French commanders managed to round up enough armor to actually have some mass. The Luftwaffe crews probably had little or no training in the AT / HE role until very late in the war.

The AT crews would have had no training in the AA role since there gun was incapable of the required barrel elevation, they would have been trained to fight soft targets using HE ammo though.  

IndyShark

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Re: Was watching a old war film and have you ever notice
« Reply #62 on: February 27, 2004, 09:56:27 pm »
Just to be clear, the naval 88mm was not the same design as the land based variant. It was a completely different weapon.