Cannon Rounds - too effective?

[CarlsBee]

Originally posted by Pacifica
Does anyone else think it's way to easy to get kills or be killed? ....

I do feel is way to easy to be killed, on getting kills not so sure!

[Laurie]

considering the germans claimed one 30mm round should tear a bomber apart i think they are just right or maybe a little under powered.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Laurie
considering the germans claimed one 30mm round should tear a bomber apart  

Did they? I only remember having read statements more like: "One hit could down a fighter, two to five could down a heavy bomber"

[Laurie]

well they were nazi's so take it with a pinch of salt lol

[FrodeMk3]

You guys need to realize, you're hit probability is going to be worse with cannons, due to balistics.

So no, cannon's are fine the way they are.

[Morpheus]

Originally posted by Lusche


I think you underestimate the hitting and explosive power of a 200mm HE round...

can i get a 200mm for my temp?

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Morpheus
can i get a 200mm for my temp?

Sure, you can have mine. I'm getting installed a 280mm railway gun.

[SKurj]

Originally posted by FrodeMk3
You guys need to realize, you're hit probability is going to be worse with cannons, due to balistics.

So no, cannon's are fine the way they are.

Not sure I agree there...

ROF likely comes into play there...

[eskimo2]

Quite often planes that are being hit are also evading and under a Gee-load.  A hit while pulling Gee’s is more likely to break/rip a wing off.  

It’s kind of like bending a small tree before striking it with a machete; one chop is all it takes.

[eskimo2]

P.S.

The first fighter pilot I ever met (I was a kid) was a Viet-Nam F-4 pilot.  He told me that a single 20 mm shell could tear a wing off of a plane.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by eskimo2
P.S.

The first fighter pilot I ever met (I was a kid) was a Viet-Nam F-4 pilot.  He told me that a single 20 mm shell could tear a wing off of a plane.

A guy that used to work for my father said the samething about the 20mm cannon that was on the F-14 Tomcat.  The guy had just mustered out of the Navy after spending 15 years flying the Tomcat.  I had asked him once about how lethal the gun was and that's when he told me that one well placed 20mm round could remove a tail section or a wing but you'd have a better chance of a for sure kill with a 3 second burst.  Not many fighters could survive a solid hit from a 3 second burst of 20mm cannon rounds.

ack-ack

[Rino]

Originally posted by Larry
.50 cals are good. They wernt HE so when they hit all they did was make a hole. When a cannon round hits it detonates on contact. Its like what I said when people were taking about how .50cals would take longer to take out ack. Get a few of your friends in a circle and fire a .50 cal into the ground. All that will happen is you will get dirt on you. Now drop a grenade on the ground and see what happens.

     Must be amazingly tough AAA gunners to ignore hundreds of 50 cal
landing around them just because they didn't "explode".

[Viking]

Originally posted by Rino
Must be amazingly tough AAA gunners to ignore hundreds of 50 cal
landing around them just because they didn't "explode".

What option did they have? Run from behind their gun shield, out in the .50 cal fire?

[SKJohn]

Originally posted by Morpheus
can i get a 200mm for my temp?

LOL!  I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed that -  Reminds me of the show on the history channel talking about the effectiveness of the six 50 mm machine guns the P-51 carried. . .

BTW - a 30mm round is not "as big as your fist."  It's just over an inch in diameter.  (1.2 inches?)  For example, 10mm pistol round is roughly .40 of an inch.

[CHECKERS]

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