Remote Hetzer MG

[GodlikeDennis]

The Goliath is remote controlled. Anyone know how?

[Tankbuster]

It was controlled by command cables. You cut the cables you have a box filled with high explosives sitting pretty in the middle of a firefight.

[pariah]

You use your hands to control the remote to control the Goliath.

[Sommarkatze]

And like you surely understands. In COH there are no command cables. Its like a super RC car ^^

[Paciat]

The Goliath is remote controlled. Anyone know how?

At first it was radio controlled but when it drove out of range the radio man needed to get out of cover. Then Germans made a cheaper, more realiable solution with a cable.

[Paladin88]

RE:Hetzer MG.  Ha ha ha, has anyone noticed how accurate CoH makes the MG 42, he cant even aim it but gets your infantry in the first burst, every burst!

[Jeff 'Robotnik' W.]

a little article on the rundum fuerer mg (i think thats whats its called if i remember right)

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/remotemg/index.html

[Blackbishop]

a little article on the rundum fuerer mg (i think thats whats its called if i remember right)

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/remotemg/index.html

Nice find !

[Dzierzan]

Thx Robotnik (doctor Eggman ) for this link, now i know how it was working and looking inside.

[Gerrit 'Lord Rommel' G.]

About your radio control number:
German army had tried much more stuff

E.g. they had tried to install video cameras and transfer this datas by radio at a control station.
They had tried to radio control Bogward Ladungsträger over a distance of 5.000m.
German army was very interested into radio controlled weapons. 

[Killar]

Where i come from (Bayreuth; the wagner city you know) scientists were researching a bomb that exploded when reaching a special air pressure above ground.

[GodlikeDennis]

Yeah isn't that just an airburst munition, like CW overwatch?

[Killar]

No. The bombs were dropped by planes and you could exactly set the altitude when it should explode. CW overwatch thingy is fired by a gun (i think)

[Otto Halfhand]

The height at which the an airburst weapon is detonated will greatly influence its yield and destructive pattern. THe Little Boy "Uranium" type bomb was detonated IIRC 1900 ft. Later testing showed than was the optimal elevation for maximum destruction.

Similarly the high rate of fire for the MG42 was effective because it placed the greatest density of metal ("cone of penetration"), on the target in the shortest time. It seldom was fired at a greater rate than ~150 rpm or 5-7 rounds per burst.

[GodlikeDennis]

No. The bombs were dropped by planes and you could exactly set the altitude when it should explode. CW overwatch thingy is fired by a gun (i think)

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Yes but same mechanism is it? Both detonate under a certain pressure? Or is the overwatch type airburst shell set on a timer?