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2018/03/16 09:18:16
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
Designed mainly because at the end of WW1, the UK had millions of spare 2-lb shells that didn't want to go to waste.
The round was relatively low velocity, which restricted its range and effectiveness. However, available in 1, 2, 4 and 8-barrel mounts, this weapon equipped most of the Royal Navy throughout WW2 and shot down a couple of thousand enemy aircraft.
The 8-barrel mount is particularly impressive, weighing over 17 tons and had an ammo capacity of 140 rounds per barrel, allowing a continuous spray of fire at the combined rate of nearly 8 rounds a second.
40mm Bofors for me. Ground defence of RAF and British Army alike during the second world war and still in use today, including in an about-turn on the AC-130. A ground based anti-aircraft gun attacking ground based targets from an aircraft.
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2018/03/16 09:26:39
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
Well, the whole "favorite {military thing}" trend has certainly reached its inevitable and absurd conclusion...
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2018/03/16 09:31:44
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
Aye, but the Bofors 40mm quad mount..
Certainly a workhorse of the RN fleet later in the war.
My Grampa was on thr battleships and they had dozens the lengh of the ship in various forms from singles to quad mounts.
They could lay down hundreds of rounds a minute.
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2018/03/16 11:12:51
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
My favorite is a sort of chain round used by the ISS Yamato. Basically two shells joined by a chain they'd fire out of the main guns to cover a wider area. No idea how useful it was but I love the idea of using a medieval technique to try and keep battleships relevant in the age of air war.
2018/03/16 12:17:40
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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2018/03/16 14:58:57
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
My favorite is a sort of chain round used by the ISS Yamato. Basically two shells joined by a chain they'd fire out of the main guns to cover a wider area. No idea how useful it was but I love the idea of using a medieval technique to try and keep battleships relevant in the age of air war.
They also have had massive AA shells fired from main battery that blanketed huge areas in flak. Not every effective.. The gunnery and gun targeting tech like radar was a whilw behind US.
There optical sights where excellent however.
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2018/03/16 21:26:28
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
My favorite is the old "Sit down with those aircraft and have a honest-to-goodness talk. Really understand their motivations, share my feelings and see what we can work out".
2018/03/16 23:35:56
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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2018/03/17 00:21:15
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
The M45 Quadmount with four of the magnificent M2 .50cals. It also happens to be an excellent anti-German weapon too.
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2018/03/17 00:35:29
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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2018/03/17 00:44:25
Subject: Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
But...Flak 88. Godamn were they OPaf in Company of Heroes 1.
As with the Soviet 85mm mentioned earlier, wouldn't the 88 be considered heavy AA rather than medium? I'd have thought that "light to medium" would broadly mean anything from infantry small arms up to about 50mm.
2018/03/17 08:29:37
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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2018/03/17 11:56:06
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
But...Flak 88. Godamn were they OPaf in Company of Heroes 1.
As with the Soviet 85mm mentioned earlier, wouldn't the 88 be considered heavy AA rather than medium? I'd have thought that "light to medium" would broadly mean anything from infantry small arms up to about 50mm.
Besides Bofors, Flak 88 is the only WW2 AA gun that I can name.
2018/03/19 06:10:02
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
But...Flak 88. Godamn were they OPaf in Company of Heroes 1.
As with the Soviet 85mm mentioned earlier, wouldn't the 88 be considered heavy AA rather than medium? I'd have thought that "light to medium" would broadly mean anything from infantry small arms up to about 50mm.
Besides Bofors, Flak 88 is the only WW2 AA gun that I can name.
Same here. So my favorite is probably the Flak 88 I guess.
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2018/03/19 07:48:57
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
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Peregrine wrote: Well, the whole "favorite {military thing}" trend has certainly reached its inevitable and absurd conclusion...
I'm sure we can think of some more. We haven't touched on auxiliary transport.
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2018/03/19 08:17:54
Subject: Re:Your favourite light to medium anti-aircraft equipment of the period 1930 to 1945 and why...
Sorry, but this is a pet peeve of mine: Bofors is a proper noun, like Browning or Oerlikon. You don't drop the S for singular, and it's never pronounced as if it were a French word, because it isn't.
It also happens to be my favourite AA gun because my grandmother worked for Bofors at Bofors (the original place the company's named after) in Karlskoga.
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