marcos Posted April 13, 2013 Posted April 13, 2013 Here's a rare one, B-25 strafers doing attack runs on Japanese airfields, you can see the parafrag bombs, as well as the long fuse settings on the other bombs (Yes, in the video those bombs are striking the ground and bouncing back up at near the height of the aircraft and detonating on the second impact.) http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/second-world-war/ww2-b-25-gunships-strafing/1650927482001/ No 75mm?
Invader ZIM Posted April 13, 2013 Posted April 13, 2013 (edited) There's a few 75mm gunned -G and -H models firing in the video, have to watch for it though. Has a distinct quick flash, coupled with a few seconds until you see the impact in the distance. P.S. Marcos, thanks for the video above, I was looking for that particular one, I knew it had British aircraft strafing German shipping, but all I remembered was them flying over that cliff and launching rockets as they dove in, great find, I enjoyed seeing it again after all these years. Here's a better B-25 strafe video, gun camera is mounted in the nose, at 0.37 seconds and just 10 seconds before, you can see the pilot aiming and firing the 75mm into the buildings in the bottom right of the video. Also a video showing the 75mm with the radar directed gun and it's results: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675059994_B-25H-Mitchell-planes_firing-cannons-on-target_survey-team Radar was AN/APG-13 "Falcon" More color 75mm armed B-25 guncam here: I used to have detailed radar info that showed how to use the 75mm with the radar in the cockpit to fire accurately at a ship target over 3000 yards away from a veteran who flew the -H, hopefully I can get that up, it would be neat to get a B-25H modeled with the radar like that someday in a WW2 sim. Some info and photos inside the B-25H here: http://home.mchsi.com/~anderson.kevin/b25h_pictures.html I have a particular affinity to these B-25 strafers, a lot of veterans from my area flew them, and they used to modify them out my way also: Edited April 13, 2013 by Invader ZIM 1
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