"Old 666"

[jbmacek]

For a lark I decided to do a search on "most heavily armed bomber of wwi." What popped up first wasn't a WWI bomber, but a WWII bomber, "Old 666."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_666

Pretty neat story.

[Naharaht]

Does 19 .50 in machine guns beat a Mitchell with a 75mm cannon and 14 .5 in machine guns as the most heavily armed bomber?

[wargamer]

Well if timedrift is legal, I will see your B-25 Mitchell and raise you an AC-130.

[Kugelblitz]

Ok so we stick a few YB40s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YB-40_Flying_Fortress) into the B17 boxes when we run the Schweinfurt scenario... Heck that might be a campaign game.

They only had sixteen guns, including two upper turrets and the chin turret that was later used on the G model...

[CappyTom]

Yes, great story. Here's a video of the mission.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Im086TCu3I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Im086TCu3I

:salute:
Thomas

[jbmacek]

Does 19 .50 in machine guns beat a Mitchell with a 75mm cannon and 14 .5 in machine guns as the most heavily armed bomber?

I have no idea. And those YB-40s are fairly crazy too.

[jbmacek]

Yes, great story. Here's a video of the mission.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Im086TCu3I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Im086TCu3I

:salute:
Thomas

Agreed. (I watched it yesterday during my lunch break.)

[Lord_Ninja]

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg57/scaled.php?server=57&filename=011a4f3f27b544xlso4.jpg&res=landing Not really related to Ole' 666 but as a contender for most heavily armed bomber here is an experimental Tu-2 with 88 PPsh 41 sub-machine guns in it's bomb-bay.

[Grey Knight]

More guns good,mongo like

[Jager]

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg57/scaled.php?server=57&filename=011a4f3f27b544xlso4.jpg&res=landing Not really related to Ole' 666 but as a contender for most heavily armed bomber here is an experimental Tu-2 with 88 PPsh 41 sub-machine guns in it's bomb-bay.

Looks like an earlier, Russian "Puff the Magic Dragon". I wouldn't want to be in a foxhole when that flew overhead :eek:
Karl

[gully_raker]

:thumbsup: Facinating story about "old 666" I had not heard about her previously.

[Marechallannes]

Pretty neat story.

Hehe, a bad suprise for the Japanese Fighters!;)

Great story!

[Doug]

Very brave men:salute: