Cryhavoc101
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One of the issues with flak shells was that the technology of the day was not accurate enough to ensure that the shells exploded at the exact height - the tolerances involved were so great that the differences between desired detonation point and potential detonation were many many times the effective blast radius meaning that even when a 'box' formations altitude was known the vast majority of the shells would detonate too early or too late to even have a chance of damaging any planes
So the idea of using 'impact' shells is not actually that daft
Also an impact fuse is much easier to make an more robust than a Prox fuse or timer type
I read an idea many years ago which may have been along these line and that was to use smooth bore guns firing sabot shells.
The idea being that a faster 'Saboted' shell can get to altitude quicker and be 'relatively' more accurate than a conventional flak shell of the same calibre - the shell can get away with being smaller as a direct hit requires far less explosives than a flak shell to bring down a four engined bomber.
So the idea of using 'impact' shells is not actually that daft
Also an impact fuse is much easier to make an more robust than a Prox fuse or timer type
I read an idea many years ago which may have been along these line and that was to use smooth bore guns firing sabot shells.
The idea being that a faster 'Saboted' shell can get to altitude quicker and be 'relatively' more accurate than a conventional flak shell of the same calibre - the shell can get away with being smaller as a direct hit requires far less explosives than a flak shell to bring down a four engined bomber.