Durability of aircraft to MG (< 8mm) guns

[Flying Pencil]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

Just a small snapshot to keep the whole 30mm versus 0.50 cal thing in perspective ....

Some excellent info on the effectiveness of those weapons:

http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/WW2guneffect.htm

http://users.telenet.be/Emmanuel.Gus...n/fgun-pe.html

http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/show...mp-Machineguns.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Flying Pencil

Some excellent info on the effectiveness of those weapons:

http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/WW2guneffect.htm

http://users.telenet.be/Emmanuel.Gus...n/fgun-pe.html

http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/show...mp-Machineguns.

Good links.

This small pic caught my eye. The parts of a bomber vulnerable to rifle calibre machine gun according to a French study:

[Biggs]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

Good links.

This small pic caught my eye. The parts of a bomber vulnerable to rifle calibre machine gun according to a French study:

ha, notice the entire cockpit section is blacked out... not really vulnerability to the 'bomber' but more the 'inhabitants'