Response to Glider and Juha.

[Kutscha]

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

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?