P-51 Mustang in Action

[Rickrick123]

 

[spitfirejoe]

nice one

[Rickrick123]

thanks

[Pict]

Nice video, pretty heavy attrition rate though, how many state of the art fighters were lost for one old bomber? 2, 3 or 4, it was hard to tell?

 

This is exactly why people complain that bomber rear gunners are too accurate, they fly right up their six o'clock and right into their gun fire relatively slowly (remove bomber speed to see just how slow) and steadily (just as steady as they can so that they can aim at the smallest,  most protected silhouette the bomber has to offer) 

 

If you want to live, try going in at as close to 90° to the bombers flight path as you can and make a diving attack from high and follow through to the other side low as fast as you can. Then trade your speed for alt., and zoom climb to set up another pass.

 

This way fewer of the gunners can track you and those that can will have to track you in 3 directions and at a far greater relative speed. You get a clean shot at all the vulnerable bits. The wings, so fuel tanks and engines, the cockpit, so pilot and chance of a PK and the bomb load if it's still aboard, so the chance of setting that off for a massive bang and saving some ammo 

Edited June 18, 2020 by Pict