Hi sniperton,
Thanks for joining us yesterday, it's been fun while it lasted
Indeed I took out the KV-1 by crashing into it, albeit not intentionally.
I've scored three hits with the MK-103 on it from short distance, damaging the KV-1 by 5.1, 5.7 and 4.0 percent each. Further hits might have been able to take it out, or maybe not, who knows...
I've been extremely low, so eventually on the pull-up my tail wheel struck ground, and disaster took its course.
The tail came back up, the nose down, pull-out wasn't possible anymore... instead, props struck ground as well and I ran front-first straight into the KV-1.
Incidentally, if I would have managed to lose my tail wheel at any time before this happened, I would have made it over the KV-1, albeit barely.
See the sortie details are here:
http://www.sas1946.rocks:8000/de/sortie/log/10057/?tour=1Picture story below...
Initial hits, note the ricochet which is usually MG-17 ammo just bouncing off the KV-1's armor plates:
1st good hit right on the body/turret connection, note the damage shrapnel effect:
Further hits from short distance...
See next MK103 103 bullet right before hitting the turret. This was the last good hit:
Now I've been trying to pull out. See how the tail strikes the russian steppe here:
My life's last split second:
The bang. Note the details, I've been coming from top right, remaining parts of my plane are on the lower left of the KV-1 and top-left you can see an MK-103 bullet ricochet up in the air:
Mike