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Originally Posted by tcolvin
Yes, you are right, Kutscha, but you do not spell out the result that this made the Il-2 but not the Typhoon immune to all German infantry weapons, which were a maximum 7.92mm (0.3inch) calibre.
Remember Eric Roberts' fate.
Russian and US infantry were much better equipped with both medium 0.3inch and heavy 0.5inch (12.7mm) MGs - the 0.5inch Browning and 12.7mm DshK.
Tony
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Don't understand what you are saying Tony.
"Il-2 suffered the following losses:
Red Army: 10759 (24% to fighters, 43% to AAA, 32% failed to return, 1% on the ground)"
From the loss list in the Thomas/Shores Typhoon-Tempest book I counted 1475 Typhoons lost to all causes. Of this number 525 had 'flak' mentioned in the reason for the loss.
This is
36% lost to flak compared to
43% for the Il-2.
Why is the loss rate, to flak, for the heavily
armoured Il-2 greater than the
unarmoured Typhoon?
10th May 2011, 20:54
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