The Hurricane 11D carries tow 40-millimetre guns, one being fitted under each wing. new Tank Buster a Hawker Hurricane 11D fighter - fitted with heavy calibre guns, designed primarily for attacking armoured vehicles. 'Tin Openers' In Middle East - This is one of the first photographs released of the R.A.F' s. They are capable of either automatic or single shot fire, have been specially designed for mounting on aircraft, and the weight of each is only 320 lb.
Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Rita Jimenez) The A-10's GAU-8 Avenger 30 mm cannon serves as a Close Air Support 'Tank Buster' for the U.S. 11, 2020, at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Rita Jimenez) An A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft with the 122nd Fighter Wing, Fort Wayne, Indiana, sits on the flight line during Southern Strike, Feb. P51 loss rates started to climb when they went down to straf airfields, ground fire was a bigger danger than LW fighters.An A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft with the 122nd Fighter Wing, Fort Wayne, Indiana, sits on the flight line during Southern Strike, Feb. A bomb will destroy a tank if you hit it directly or very close to it but dive bombing a tank means flying straight at it and tanks usually had a lot of men with MGs around them. Rockets are hard to aim precisely, MGs and small calibre cannon cant destroy a tank. By June 1944, A-36As in Europe were replaced by Curtiss P-40s and Republic P-47 Thunderbolts. Despite establishing a "reputation for reliability and performance, "the one "Achilles' heel" of the A-36A (and the entire Mustang series) remained its vulnerable cooling system leading to many of the losses. German defenses in southern Italy included placing cables across hill tops to snare the attacking A-36As. The main reason for the attrition was the hazardous missions that placed the A-36A "on the deck" facing murderous ground fire. As fighting intensified in all theaters where the A-36A operated, the dive bomber began to suffer an alarming loss rate with 177 falling to enemy action. Russo from the 27th Fighter Bomber Group (ultimately, the only ace using the Allison-engined Mustang).
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To be really pedantic, Tom Hanks and his group would not have come up against Tiger tanks either, as the story was set just a few days after D-Day itself, with the first Tigers arriving on the front in very late June / early July, having traveled from the south of France, and been involved in some brutality on the way, such as Oradour sur Glane.Īlthough a good movie overall, with the production team making great efforts at authenticity of equipment, action scenes etc, it was a movie, for entertainment and mass box-office returns, not a truly accurate documentary presentation.īesides dive bombing, the A-36A racked up aerial victories, totaling 84 enemy aircraft downed and creating an "ace", Lieutenant Michael T. But then, it was a movie trying to tell a partly-realistic story, whilst portraying a fairly authentic view of the action and battles of the time, employing the best available props and equipment the producers could obtain or manufacture. In reality, the aircraft used would more likely have been P-47's or Typhoons. ) for the visual effect required by the story line.Ī bit of a partial slip, historically, but much better than using Harvards (AT-6), as was the 'norm' in most war movies of the past !
Although not strictly accurate, the movie scene in question used the best available aircraft (Duxford based and, as Bill mentioned, in the colours of the 78th FG.
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