The North American P-51 Mustang, originally produced in 1940, was a high performance fighter aircraft that was instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II. I just got a chance to review the war record of one pilot and one particular P51 squadron in the Korean War, where they were used the majority of the time in a ground attack role. The British Hawker Typhoon was the best tank buster with its air to ground rockets.
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What was the best tank buster of the Korean War?
#TANK BUSTER WW2 SERIES#
Likely the best tank-busting aircraft of the era were the Russian IL-2 Sturmovik series (many variants) which were heavily armored (and dubbed “flying tanks”) and which were armed with cannon as well as bombs and rockets. The Ilyushin Il-2 (Cyrillic: -2) Shturmovik (Cyrillic:, Shturmovík) is a ground-attack aircraft produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War. What was the best tank-busting aircraft of WW2?
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The P-47 Thunderbolt was known more for tank busting. It was never intended to be a “tank killer”. So the P-51 was originally designed as a low level interceptor and became the most successful long range bomber escort of the War. The mantlet is also much narrower on the movie’s Tiger than on both models of the Tiger 1, which gives the turret a more pointed look rather than the round shape which the turret historically had.
#TANK BUSTER WW2 MOVIE#
The Tiger Tank used in this movie is a converted Russian T-34/85, which explains the non-interweaving wheels. What tank was used in Saving Private Ryan? Tank armor is very thin on the top of tanks, especially the engine compartment. Specialised ground attack aircraft armed with cannon of 20mm and larger could destroy a tank if they could hit it. The pairing of the legendary Merlin engine and the P-51 Mustang eventually resulted in the P-51D, which provided the US Army Air Forces with a high-performance, high-altitude, long range fighter that could escort heavy bomber formations all the way to Berlin and back. The P-51 Mustang came into the war at time when Allied bombers were being shot down at an unsustainable rate had it continued. An anti-tank rifle is an anti-materiel rifle designed to penetrate the armor of armored fighting vehicles, most commonly tanks, armored personnel carriers, and infantry fighting vehicles.The term is usually used for weapons that can be carried and used by one person, but is sometimes used for larger weapons. Nicknamed the rhino, the plow was mounted to the front of light and medium. Others: Hawker Typhoon, Bell P-39 Airacobra (in Soviet use), and the Messerschmidt 110. A soldier could rarely get close enough to a Tiger 1 to plant. P51s were perfectly good tank-busters, Not just the P-47s. Any of the allied tanks could hit a Tiger with many shells before crippling it, but the 90 mm gun of the M-36 could punch through the 5 inches of armor like it was warm butter. Culin, in collaboration with three others from his unit, spent July 9-13, 1944, designing a four-pronged plow using iron from German roadblocks and beach defenses. The M-36 Tank Buster, with its 90 mm cannon, was a formidable match for a Tiger 1 tank. The P-47 Thunderbolt was known more for tank busting. In one of the finest examples of battlefield innovation in the history of American warfare, Sgt. In reality Soviet U wrote off 23 700 tanks and assault guns in 1944 and much less than 20 000 AFV were destroyed in battle front.The British Hawker Typhoon was the best tank buster with its air to ground rockets. Besides Fremde Ost estimated Soviet tank losses to have been over 32 000. Luftwaffe need at least 3 ground attack aircraft for every enemy armor knocked out per month. So we have lots of reasons to estimate that July 44 figure of 210 Soviet armor lost because Luftwaffe give us perspective. In France 1940 only 2% of French armor losses (total some 1 750) were caused by Luftwaffe. In Kursk (Citadel) some 2-5% of Soviet tank losses (1 956 by Frieser) was caused by Luftwaffe when Soviet officials studies reasons for their tank losses. When even Fremde Ost was skeptical of Luftwaffe's ability to destroy/knock out Soviet armor then clearly the real number of ground attack aircraft (Schlachtgeschwader) eliminating Soviet tanks and assault guns might have been relatively low, just about 2% of all Soviet AFV losses.
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Highest estimate was for July (210) while only 20 for June 130 for August. And even Fremde Ost estimated just 1 090 Soviet combat armor destroyed (or likely knocked out) by any Luftwaffe aircraft during whole year 1944. Luftwaffe had some 650 ground attack aircraft (Stukas, FW-190's etc) in Eastern Front before summer 1944.