|
|
|||||||
| IL-2 Sturmovik The famous combat flight simulator. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#3
12-04-2011, 11:16 PM
|
|||
|
|||
All you ever wanted to know about the WWII gun debate right here ....
http://users.skynet.be/Emmanuel.Gust...n/fgun-in.html More here ... http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/CannonMGs.htm Note that unreliability in wing mounts was not the only issue. The following factors are also relevant: - everything else in the US armed forces from HMG in rifleman squads through jeeps and tanks to light AAA mounts on boats used 0.50 cal. From a logistics point of view 0.50 cal was easier to supply. - even if 20mm was "better" ... if 0.50 cal was doing the job it was uneconomic just to change weapons at random mid war - multiple 0.50 cal in an aircraft could use a variety of gun harmonization some of which favored less accurate marksman. See the link and diagram below ... http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Air...nBoresighting/ 
Last edited by WTE_Galway; 12-04-2011 at 11:39 PM. 
|
|
|
Threaded Mode