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Us ww2 tank buster plane
Us ww2 tank buster plane













us ww2 tank buster plane

Rudel, the legendary Stuka pilot and unrepentant Nazi who flew the Ju-87G, claimed to have destroyed 519 Soviet tanks. In effect, the Ju-87G’s cannon was the World War II predecessor of the A-10's far more devastating 30-millimeter Gatling gun, whose depleted uranium shells sliced up Iraqi tanks in 19. As seen in the photo above, the cannon barrels stuck out almost as far as the Stuka’s propeller.įiring armor-piercing tungsten-carbide ammunition, these guns could penetrate a tank’s thin overhead and engine compartment armor. The Ju-87G was armed with a converted 37-millimeter anti-aircraft cannon in a pod under each wing.

us ww2 tank buster plane

“I felt that the combat specifics, such as tactics, targets, aerial cannon effectiveness, austere field operations, surge sortie rates, air-ground communications and coordination, of the World War II close support experience were so relevant to designing a first-rate CAS plane that I required every member of the A-X concept design team to read Hans-Ulrich Rudel’s Stuka Pilot.” “The World War II close air support successes of both the Stuka and the Sturmovik had a major-and inspiring-influence in convincing all of us early A-X/A-10 proponents that close support was by far the most important mission of air power, certainly more so than strategic bombing,” A-10 designer Pierre Sprey tells War is Boring. It is the Sturmovik, along with the German Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber, that fathered the A-10. “They are as essential to the Red Army as bread and water,” he said. The Soviet dictator loved the A-10 of his day, otherwise known as the Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik. If they were, Josef Stalin might have had them shot. It’s a good thing that the Air Force generals who want to retire the beloved A-10 Warthog were not around 70 years ago.















Us ww2 tank buster plane