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Onikage108 — Otto Carius' Claim to Fame: Tank kills a Plane
Published: 2013-03-02 00:49:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 6773; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 63
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In what seems like a scene straight out of a war movie, Tiger Tank Commander Otto Carius recalls one of the most improbable fates in the history of warfare: Shooting down an enemy aircraft--with a tank gun.Read more here: [link]
I found this out from "Improbable Aiming Skills" from TvTropes: [link]
It should be noted that the Tiger's 88 was originally an anti-air gun.
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That doesn't seem so unlikely, shooting a plane down with a tank. As long as the plane was moving slowly enough for the tank to draw a bead.
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In the Military Channel's Top Tens, the Tiger was third due it's absurdly high fear factor.
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It might have been an Ilyushin Il 2 Sturmovik.
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this is what people do, 80% of the time in Halo's multiplayer forge mode.
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Not that hard. I was a pro at this in Battlefield 1942.
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This isn't in a game, anyone can drop a fighter in Battlefield with a tank. This was real life, where anti-aircraft gunners had a hard time hitting planes. Please take into consideration the difference between a video-game and actual combat before making stupid remarks like this.
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It was a joke, and, despite not being able to inflict tone to text, a pretty blatantly obvious one at that.
Please take into consideration the definition of 'sarcasm' before making stupid remarks like this.
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You obviously don't know how many stupid comments like your attempted "joke" I see daily from video game players thinking they could cut it in actual combat and making "jokes" about combatives. I don't consider combat, soldiers being bombed and them trying to fight back things to joke about.
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Hi there,
This piece might be better posted in the deviantart related - devious fun -other section or scraps. That way the photography section can be used to let photographers shine. 
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You are good! Thank you!
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Wow. That is ether it was luck that it hit or just pure luck
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Well there were multiple planes coming directly at the tank--he only had to adjust for elevation, not traverse.
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