In Otto Carius Book, he tales of his gunner getting annoyed with an attacking il-2, and opening fire with the main gun on it scoring a hit, and downing it.
He says that he never heard of nobody else doing this nowhere in the war, and that it was an extremely lucky shot. Keep in mind that Otto Carius gunner was an extremely good marksman at that period.
On the other hand, with burst firing canons like the kwk20, an uncareful pilot could have a very bad time. And if they happen to be succesfull it is quite difficult that someone could just know what really downed the aircraft.
Still the big problem here is that moving ground units have unlimited ammo, so they fire allways and forever. That would be a great change on this subject.
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01-11-2010, 09:27 PM
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