16.06.2008, 13:01
vanir Wrote:Dude, only a Heavy Cruiser can stand up to several anti-armour aircraft guns (pretty much anything from a MK-101 or Vickers-S or bigger). Converted PT-gunboats and MGB's used to run around the Pacific and Mediterranean sinking destroyers and light cruisers every chance they got, with twin 20mm deck guns and half a dozen .50's....
well, many interesting things happened in WWII... once P-39 wing has managed to disable steering and engine of (approx.) 5,000GRT tanker (Baltic Sea)... the vessel didn't sink though but grounded.
...and there was a story re-told zillion times by Black Sea Navy pilots about MBR-2 navigator who shot Bf-109 using flare pistol...
but when I imagine massive sinking of destroyers and cruisers by means of 20mm and .50's in real combat operations (not at firing range)... it reminds me famous discussion on UBI about Mustang-a-tank-buster... sorry. :wink: