laser fire... no
but why are drone shooting where I'm not aiming
Wouldn't a drone gunner aim at a plane, rather than aiming 1200' from the target. I don't want auto fire, I would like to tell the drone what range to converge at. I still have to lead and elevate to hit that d800 with 50s, I just want the other planes to shoot where I'm shooting. Sure, B24s work great, at least 2 pair 50s at any angle from a single plane... 2 pair with relativly no initial convergance seperation on your 1 plane. Lanc's 303's make poor partners to the tail 50s past d250, really need the other lanc's tail 50s to not converge half way to d600 target.
As for cannons, hispanos work great at d600 on someones six, but that d600 will result in the slugs going more like 700-800 by the time they reach the 300kt away from you target.
Shooting 50s to the rear, they get a ho / distance closing benifit- they only have to go maybe 650-700 to reach that d800 target approaching the firing point at 350kt. A few 50s at d800 wont blow a wing off, but stay there and you will get rained on.
The germans didn't 'use them against buffs out there', they used them on everything everywhere. What did FW190s use against Ponys at d300... maybe cannons eh.
I digress- I just want the drones to shoot where I'm shooting, at least where I tell them to meet my shots.
(all these numbers are from the hip, I don't want to get the slide rule out for Time of Flight closing & egressing ballistics, but inflated to show the concept)