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Crazy thing I found in the pacific fighters manual
Page 15 under aerial gunnery it says..
" a bullet at 50 meters can puncture light to medium armor but at 500 meters it may even bounce off human skin." we are talking about aircraft machine gun rifle caliber bullets aren't we? :? I never have heard of a 50 caliber browning or three 0 three caliber AP bullet bouncing off of anyone's skin at 500 meters.. Is it a Japanese aerial round they are talking about? :) |
Re: Crazy thing I found in the pacific fighters manual
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The .30 caliber rounds ( or .303 or 7.92 by the Krauts) used previous to the 50 cal all were quite deadly out past 500 meters, even against lightly armoured targets. |
stalkervision,
dont take it literally, I believe they are just trying to explain that with distance bullets lose power. |
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Super...er Flyby |
If they're talking about firing at another aircraft (seems likely as PF is a flight sim) 500m away, moving away from you, the bullets will have a much longer flight time than if fired against a stationary target, you could also say that the bullets travel a lot longer than 500m (relative to the ground), how much obviously depending on how fast you're going, if that's so then the bullets could in fact bounce off human skin.
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Just consider:
1. air 2. drag 3. friction |
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