 | Favorite gun armament of WWII aircraft| Weapons Systems Tech. Discuss Favorite gun armament of WWII aircraft in the Technical forums; Originally Posted by syscom3
Why shred a Japanese airplane with .30's?
Go with the 10 .50's!!!!!
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03-24-2008, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by syscom3  Why shred a Japanese airplane with .30's?
Go with the 10 .50's!!!!!
Plus you can also shred Japanese ships with the 50 cals. | Ok... I know the Hurricaine was outfitted with up to 12 .303's..
which fighter had 10 .50's?
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Originally Posted by comiso90 Ok... I know the Hurricaine was outfitted with up to 12 .303's..
which fighter had 10 .50's? | B25 Gunships.
Plus the P47 had 8 .50's.
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Country: | Didn't someone on the forum have a siggy that said: "Eight .50's kick ass !"
Fighter to fighter, eight .50's should do the trick. If your going after
bombers, cannon would help. Depends on whose bombers you're after.
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Originally Posted by syscom3 B25 Gunships.
Plus the P47 had 8 .50's. | yeahh..
i was thinking fighters.. i didnt want to get into gunships
I'd like to know if any fighter had 10 .50s
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4 20mm
4 .50s
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Country: | well first it is a futer thing and my favriot gun one a plane of ww2 is the 50.cal
yea the day the hornets took of the carrier was amazing it must take gutes to fly a B-25 OFF of a carrier to japan and to know they would not mak it back
that is the most wierd plane i have ever in my 14 years of life
that is a wierd plane
espicely if its a b-29s guns
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Originally Posted by comiso90 The American education system is failing us. | Amen to that. I was working when I was 14 !
Maybe he was just in a hurry ?
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Originally Posted by SoD Stitch Another fly boy in the making . . . . **shudder** | I thought the same thing. Lets hope it's not a representative sampling of our youth.
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Country:  | As the person who started this thread  , my favorite weapon would be four 20mm guns against fighters (Hispano or MG 151/20) and 30 mm guns against bombers. Why using rifle or heavy calibre guns if you could have something with much more punch? If your enemy is a Japanese aircraft simply load your 20 mm with HE shells instead of AP, otherwise your rounds would probably just make holes only.
To answer HoHun's question: The maximum effective range of aircraft weapons is the range at which you still have a reasonable chance of hitting the enemy and the round does some damage. This depends on the ballistic of the round, the fire rate, gun sight, the type of target, the altitude and numerous other variables. The absolute maximum range for a MG 151/20 according to German reports is 750 meters at an altitude of 3000 m. The effective range is about 400 meters. | |
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Canadian-built variant. Single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber. Powered by a 1,300 hp (969 kW) Packard Merlin 29. Initially armed with 12 0.303 inch (7.7 mm) machine guns, but this was later changed to four 20 mm cannon"
I've heard they gave such a "kick" to the aircraft, that it couldn't fly straight when shooting!
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Country: | To answer Comiso90's question, the Fisher P75A eagle had 10 M2 .50 machine guns. However only 7 protypes were build and the contract for 2500 fighters was cancelled in october 1944. | |
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