Burst ROF

[moot]

Were any aircraft gun sync. made to fire together, by static ground crew setting, or with a switch in the cockpit ready at any time?
Like the 40mm Hurricane.

Remembered Fester's request for a single button salvo of all ordnance at once, and wondered if it was ever done with guns too.


And also were any planes equipped with a full-auto/semi-auto switch?  It's a bug that would fire more than one round at a time (never was fixed, tho mentionned by htc back then) with even the shortest trigger presses; my guess was it counted the fraction of time the trigger was pressed down, and cumulated whatever time was left after the actual gunfire for the next trigger press.  Lots of ammo wasted because of this.


Thanks in advance.
m.

[moot]

sorry for the lack of clarity but im a little hungover so bear with me :-)

[Tony Williams]

Once guns started firing, they would fire at their natural rates (which might vary slightly even for the same model). The exception was guns which were synchronised to fire through the prop - they were actually semi-auto guns with each shot fired by the synchroniser whenever a prop blade was out of the way.

The Hurri IID and IV 40mm guns fired simultaneously (the recoil would slew the plane sideways otherwise) and the pilot usually fired one pair of shots at a time, as the RoF was so slow he could just stab the firing button to get one shot.

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