Tank question!

[baronWastelan]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Tiger I's KWK 88/L43 was more than enough to penetrate Allied tanks at ranges they could only dream of hitting; speaking of early Shermans, T34's etc. King Tiger and Jagdpanther got the new KWK 88/L71 that punched thru anything Allies had to throw at them even farther out with more power. Even the 75mm KWK was a very effective gun used on later models of Panzer IV and Panther for example. A former member of LLv34 had a grandparent that was a tanker in East front and according to him the problem was not killing the Russian tanks but the amount of them rushing at you.

As of land combat in IL-2, it has a ton of flaws..with tanks having tracking speed of a modern Abrams, not being destroyed by a 500kg bomb landing next to them etc.

I actually did manage to destroy one T34/76 with a 500kg bomb by landing it very close at the front of the tank, maybe 3 meters or so. I was surprised to see it destroyed and glad to have made the track to see how I had managed it. It was the only time I had ever killed a tank with a bf 109. I was using mods so I don't know if that had anything to do with it.