Don't forget Jochen we've got combined ammo for every plane. Even if all we had were AP rounds for every gun, you could still chew up the ostie crew easy with any gun.
As for the opening? From the pics I've seen it looks to be between 3 and 4 feet wide. Maybe wider, I don't know. Either way there's a huge hole in the top that makes a rather easy target when firing from a dive. Too bad AH doesn't model ammo cook-off; one .50 cal round would brew up an Ostie in short order. Although I need to correct myself; the turret ring was surrounded by 24.3mm boiler plate. That's about an inch of steel.
30mm rounds are like firing hand grenades. Put even one through that hole and you're gonna need a sponge to clean the crew out; just like a Sherman that took a hit from a Panther. Just for the fun of it, let's see a rough dispersion guess.
Figure a dispersion of 20 yards at 550 yards for 4 50 cals. Each gun puts out around 800 rounds a minute, which equates to 52 rounds per second from all four guns. Now fire a 4 second burst; 208 two ounce bullets moving at 2,600 ft/sec hitting an area 20 yards in diameter. All in just 4 seconds. Now take a Mk-108, 500 rounds per minute with a blast radius of about 5 feet. So now you've got 8 rounds per second hitting in, on, and around that Ostie. Each with the explosive power of a grenade. Me thinks the crew would come home in a Zip-Lock bag in either scenario.
Question is, how come they're near invincible now? I've blown an entire D-hog worth of .50 cal on them without effect. I didn't stay low, I was up at 4k before diving in. Once the guy started firing at me I opened up on him. Not once did he ever cease fire on me, even after I fired the last of 2,400 rounds .50 cal bullets. This happened yesterday in H2H, and none of the lethality was messed with by the host. I checked.
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Flakbait [Delta6]
Delta 6's Flight SchoolPut the P-61B in Aces High"With all due respect Chaplian, I don't think God wants to hear from me right now.
I'm gonna go out there and remove one of His creations from this universe.
And when I get back I'm gonna drink a bottle of Scotch like it was Chiggy von Richthofen's blood and celebrate his death."
Col. McQueen, Space: Above and Beyond