Originally posted by Gman:
It doesn't come straight out of the muzzle and travel along the same parrallel axis that the barrel is on, it pops up, then eventually drops and intercepts the plane that a laser from the barrel would make, and then begins to fall below the point of aim.
Are you saying that if the barrel was completely level, the bullet would still climb above its original height, but later fall down due to gravity?
I would say that the gun was pointed slightly upward so the bullet would cross your gunsight again, due to the gravity, at the convergence length.
I made a quick hand scetch of the two possibilities (don't laugh
), where the red line is the bullets path and the green line is the "laser" line from the barrel. Something I forgot to put in was the gunsight-view-line, but this should be level in both situations (and thus be identical to green line in first pic)
If convergence was to be set further out I would say that the barrel would be put at an higher angle, so the bullet would go higher and that way pass the gunsight further out and I am just talking about vertical convergence here, like MG of the 109 for instance.
Speaking of those MG I used to have their convergence at 650m, but noticed that I then would shoot a bit to high if I aimed at a bandit at for instance 300m.
Someone else talked about more lead was needed when turning after an enemy. This is not true, at least not if both are turning at 90 degree. All that might be affected is that the bullets in the future will now hit the fuselage instead of the lowest wing of the bandit, and that is actually exaggerated as such a shot is often from 200-300m where the drop is still very small, that be either at 1 or 2 G.
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Ltn. Snefens
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Lentolaivue 34[This message has been edited by LLv34_Snefens (edited 03-30-2000).]
