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

Colfox wrote:

> 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?

Wrong, and yes.  5 inch rockets were fairly standard as armament of
USAAF P-47s and other fighter bombers, and more than a few RAF
fighter-bombers.  They were used in great quantity, and racked up a LOT
of tank kills.
 
John M. Atkinson