We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:19:37 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:26:04 -0600
Kevin - How much armor can those new SLAP .50 BMG rounds penetrate?
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88094 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88094 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:19:28 -0600 Re: The 37mm AT vs German tanks... well as a child, I KNEW that Ol' Jeb Stuart and the Haunted Tank could knock out Tiger tanks with their lil' pop gun.  It happened in every issue of that great old comic book.

But, to my childish mind (nothing has changed, spare me the snarks) I always thought that was overkill... I mean, really now, the Rat Patrol routinely blew up Nazi tanks with their jeep mounted .50 calibers.

I saw it every week on TV, it MUST be true.

Or are nasty old hard facts again destroying my willing suspension of disbelief ?

Drat......

To be fair, I suppose that every 37mm shell and .50 caliber round could drive down the barrel of the Jerry tank and blow up their ready round....... 

I suppose......
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88080 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88080 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:55:54 -0600 I'm not.

This time, anyway.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88078 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88078 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:18:17 -0600 Everyone knows you disable a tank by rolling underneath and placing a grenade in the tracks- blannggg! - and the track disintegrates.
That's how Sgt. Fury did it, anyhoo...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88077 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88077 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:10:11 -0600 Haha now I know... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88076 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88076 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:53:19 -0600 Josh - crossed flintlocks are the branch insignia of the Infantry. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88074 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88074 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:38:04 -0600
I wonder about the 37mm AT gun...they claim, what, a 30 rpm sustained firing rate?  Maybe a single 37mm round wouldn't pierce the frontal armor on a Panzer IV, but could sustained firing on the same area have done the job?  Given 20 seconds to put 10 rounds on target, I'd interested to see whether a PIV could have withstood that.
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Seriously...although it make look impressive in a training environment, I am highly sceptical about a US infantryman sitting in his hidey-hole waiting for a Pzkw IV to pass by so he can employ his rifle grenade.  If we are to believe any of SLA Marshall's work, I doubt this occurred with any frequency.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88062 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88062 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:41:11 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88059 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88059 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:07:27 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88055 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/now_heres_some.html#comment-88055 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:02:10 -0600