Re: [DS] Tank designs [and battleships] was Re: [ds] Ogres

Colfox wrote:

> All right, I'm confused.  While the WW2 tank bit was straying
> off-topic,
> and I don't play SG or DS, I was still following the thread,
> because....well, actually I'm not sure why...
>
> Anyway, if you're talking WW2, the odds of someone hitting anything
> with a
> 5 inch rocket back then, especially the top of a tank was effectively
> nil.
> Did they even have them then?
>

Fighter Bombers, Typhoons and Thunderbolts, in particular, were, if not
the number 1 cause of tank kills on the western front, a leading cause
of tank kills.And yes, they had 5" rockets.

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