Hollow Charge Oddities

[PantherG]

Has anybody noticed the German 37 AT HC penetration- It's a freakishly high 186. Also, often when you click on enemy vehicles that aren't fully indentified- such as assault gun?- that have hollow charge, the penetration will be listed as 0. Any thoughts? :confused:

[SgtMuhammed]

For the 37mm the HC round looked like a Panzerfaust and was loaded like a huge rifle grenade. I don't have the exact specs (anyone?) but it made the gun look like a giant Q-tip. It was effective if it hit something but wasn't very acurate except at close range.

The 0 penetration is probably because the target isn't fully identified. The computer is just giving you a heads up on what you might be facing.

[Aaron]

There's a scene in one of the earlier Band of Brothers episodes where they are firing that thing (I forget what its called). Lord knows what they are firing at.

Aaron

[coldmeter]

Originally posted by Sgtgoody:
For the 37mm the HC round looked like a Panzerfaust and was loaded like a huge rifle grenade. I don't have the exact specs (anyone?) but it made the gun look like a giant Q-tip. It was effective if it hit something but wasn't very acurate except at close range.The PAK 36 ceased production in 1942, however there were such large quantities of this gun produced (over 5300)that large numbers were kept in service and to give them a better anti tank performance the "Steilgranate41" or stick bomb was introduced. it was a hollow charge bomb, weighing 19lbs mounted on a stick, with a perforated tail boom carrying fins. the stick was loded into the muzzle so that the tail boom and the fins surrounded the gun barrel. A special blank cartridge was then loaded and used to fire the stick bomb to a max range of 800m. Due to it's low velocity, normal engagement range was 300m with a penetration of 180mm.
They were certainly used in France '44 were the close country would have favoured the short engagement range, so yes you did see it in band of Brothers.

[tar]

Well, in another thread which started the same way, a picture was posted:



http://www.inert-ord.net/rod02h/stielgr/Stielgranate_loaded.jpg

[mike the wino2]

This is not modeled in CMBO right? Just did a quick check and couldn't find it. Will it possibly show up in a later incarnation?

[ January 16, 2003, 01:30 AM: Message edited by: mike the wino ]