I would imagine that the commander and gunners heads could look out from the turret, but they could withdraw and use a periscopic sight if directly attacked.
@@williamzk9083 yes most likely also troops around the area could speak tit he crew if they spotted incoming air craft give then abit of heads up to the over attack direction
@@SirJellyBean The Canadian Made Sherman derivative anti aircraft tank called the “skink” could fire buttoned up if necessary . As you say I think other armoured vehicles and observers would alert over radios they used in normal combat.
@@williamzk9083 o yes the skink is a cool tank variant shame they never out it in to full production I feel it would of been very valuable in urban environments suppressing targets and shredding troops
German here. Most people have no real idea of how effective the 30 mm Mk 103/108 was as an on-board weapon in German fighter planes. When there is a big fuss about the Allied cal. 50. Apart from the fact that the Luftwaffe itself used 13mm machine guns, there were also 15mm and the famous 20mm cannons as on-board weapons. But the 30mm is the queen of them all. Range is everything... Thankfully, our British friends carried out firing tests with the MK 108 (the 103 was later no longer used because it was prone to jamming) after the war in order to document the weapon's effectiveness in detail. The weapon is light, has almost no recoil (due to the effect on the aircraft) and has a high rate of fire. In addition, a ground-based variant has a significantly higher muzzle velocity and long range. This film by the English, which is not even 3 minutes long and which I have attached, shows only too clearly what effect the fire of a "ball lightning" would have had on enemy aircraft. One hit is often enough... The German nickname for the cannon was "Preßlufthammer" or jackhammer. ua-cam.com/video/91LUxqn1QY0/v-deo.html
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 fantastic comment and I was reading hoe German pilots used this 30mm cannons as anti tank planes to rip through the weak roof armour of vehicles .
Im not to sure i imagine it had many optics to help and view ports but due to lack of info I'm not sure if one ever engaged an aircraft I personally think it works best as a support vehicle for anti infantry duties .
Was...? Das ist nun wirklich kein Thema. Es gab da genügend Erfahrung mit ferngesteuerten Waffenständen, in deutschen Kampfflugzeugen. Das war kein Hexenwerk...
I had never heard of this before. i bet it woild need a lot of ball bearings for turret and guns.. Those were pretty scarce by late 44. Thanks to RAF bomber command and the 8th AF
@@SirJellyBean There was no shortage of ball bearings. This is one the idiotic ideas from the allied bomber command. This had never a real effect on the German war efforts. There is a beautiful sentence from a British book from the 1970s about famous naval battles. This sentence referred to the stupid plan in the First World War to take the Turkish narrows, which failed miserably. The sentence reads: "There was no easy way to march to Berlin. The way was very long, even if it led via Constantinople and Vienna..." The same applies, of course, to such brilliant ideas as bombing key industries. Ultimately, the Allied air offensive did not achieve any resounding military success until the Russians were already on the Vistula and the Americans had captured Aachen. But by then it was already December 1944. And the Wehrmacht still had the strength for the Ardennes offensive. The German armaments industry never produced more weapons than in 1944...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 fair enough ill have to look I to this I did ready thay Germany was pretty good ab dispersion of its vital industry to reduce the damage bombing campaigns could have
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Haha too kind
I would imagine that the commander and gunners heads could look out from the turret, but they could withdraw and use a periscopic sight if directly attacked.
@@williamzk9083 yes most likely also troops around the area could speak tit he crew if they spotted incoming air craft give then abit of heads up to the over attack direction
@@SirJellyBean The Canadian Made Sherman derivative anti aircraft tank called the “skink” could fire buttoned up if necessary . As you say I think other armoured vehicles and observers would alert over radios they used in normal combat.
@@williamzk9083 o yes the skink is a cool tank variant shame they never out it in to full production I feel it would of been very valuable in urban environments suppressing targets and shredding troops
German here. Most people have no real idea of how effective the 30 mm Mk 103/108 was as an on-board weapon in German fighter planes. When there is a big fuss about the Allied cal. 50. Apart from the fact that the Luftwaffe itself used 13mm machine guns, there were also 15mm and the famous 20mm cannons as on-board weapons. But the 30mm is the queen of them all. Range is everything...
Thankfully, our British friends carried out firing tests with the MK 108 (the 103 was later no longer used because it was prone to jamming) after the war in order to document the weapon's effectiveness in detail. The weapon is light, has almost no recoil (due to the effect on the aircraft) and has a high rate of fire. In addition, a ground-based variant has a significantly higher muzzle velocity and long range. This film by the English, which is not even 3 minutes long and which I have attached, shows only too clearly what effect the fire of a "ball lightning" would have had on enemy aircraft. One hit is often enough... The German nickname for the cannon was "Preßlufthammer" or jackhammer.
ua-cam.com/video/91LUxqn1QY0/v-deo.html
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 fantastic comment and I was reading hoe German pilots used this 30mm cannons as anti tank planes to rip through the weak roof armour of vehicles .
From which game did you take the screenshot?
@@Xmifi_ I believe it from a model kit of the Kigelblitz not a game.
1:54 it's from War Thunder.
I known that soul draining game far too well
@@Phantom-xp2co i think he means the main thumbnail shot
How does anyone aim at a fast moving aircraft with it fully enclosed like that? Wide angle optics? I’m skeptical.
Im not to sure i imagine it had many optics to help and view ports but due to lack of info I'm not sure if one ever engaged an aircraft I personally think it works best as a support vehicle for anti infantry duties .
Was...? Das ist nun wirklich kein Thema. Es gab da genügend Erfahrung mit ferngesteuerten Waffenständen, in deutschen Kampfflugzeugen. Das war kein Hexenwerk...
I had never heard of this before. i bet it woild need a lot of ball bearings for turret and guns.. Those were pretty scarce by late 44. Thanks to RAF bomber command and the 8th AF
Very good point.
@@SirJellyBean No, it isn't...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 ??
@@SirJellyBean There was no shortage of ball bearings. This is one the idiotic ideas from the allied bomber command. This had never a real effect on the German war efforts. There is a beautiful sentence from a British book from the 1970s about famous naval battles. This sentence referred to the stupid plan in the First World War to take the Turkish narrows, which failed miserably. The sentence reads: "There was no easy way to march to Berlin. The way was very long, even if it led via Constantinople and Vienna..." The same applies, of course, to such brilliant ideas as bombing key industries. Ultimately, the Allied air offensive did not achieve any resounding military success until the Russians were already on the Vistula and the Americans had captured Aachen. But by then it was already December 1944. And the Wehrmacht still had the strength for the Ardennes offensive. The German armaments industry never produced more weapons than in 1944...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 fair enough ill have to look I to this I did ready thay Germany was pretty good ab dispersion of its vital industry to reduce the damage bombing campaigns could have