German Pilots Stunned by B-17 Ball Turret Kill Ratio
Автор: Vintage Stories
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November 1943: the B-17/B-24’s Sperry ball turret erases the “blind spot below” and rewrites Luftwaffe tactics.
Inside the sphere—K-4 computing sight, 1,500-psi hydraulics, twin .50s, heated suits, oxygen at 25,000 ft.
B-17G chin + belly guns form overlapping cones of fire that shatter head-on and low-six attacks.
Combat reports from late ’43–spring ’44 cite ball-turret engagements with kill ratios exceeding 50%, lifting bomber survivability.
Engineering → doctrine → strategy: the small sphere that made daylight bombing viable—and stunned German pilots.
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