RAF Hurricane mkIID desert tank busters 40mm cannons WW2

WW2 RAF hawker Hurricane 2D desert tank busters
2x 40mm cannon mounted under wing. firing 6lb shells
armourers loading ammo +pilots flying low level.
footage of tanks being destroyed during range live firing
set-up like german ju-87g stuka

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• WW2
• RAF
• british
• RCAF
• RAAF
• canadian
• hawker
• Hurricane
• mkIID
• desert
• tank
• buster
• panzer
• afrika
• korp
• 40mm
• cannon
• 6lb
• german
• ju-87g
• stuka

[7rundle]

The A10 Warthog of its day. Great clip!

[infernalzen]

@7rundle

yep, everyone knows about the stuka tankbuster, but this is so unknown

[pinz2022]

@infernalzen

I would never have known about them were it not for the book "Hurricane & Messerschmitt". I can only assume the low-recoil Vickers 40mm guns were using tungsten-core ammunition as they really could kill tanks with them. But I read they only served in the Desert campaign as the Allies switched to rocket-firing fighter-bombers thereafter. Even though the rockets used then were really not accurate enough for the purpose.

[infernalzen]

@pinz2022

only advantage i can see in rockets, is the ability to damage things with the HE

do damage to light vehiles, guns, enemy troops...?

[aeromariner]

40mm was a 2 ponder ie fired a 2 pound shell. 57mm molliers gun in the DH mosquito fired a six pound shell

[thematuda1234]

RAFはかっこいいなぁ

整備の様子がみれていいね！

[Bossman1603]

I've always like the Hurricane. Especially the tank buster variant.

[McLarenMercedes]

@infernalzen

The Stuka was nowhere near the best attack aircraft of WW2. Early in the war it was already too slow, but thanks to its use in Poland, France and the Soviet Union it got a reputation.

By 1943 Germany itself stopped manafacturing it, way past its past prime date.