Author Topic: New! Vultch-O-Matic™ (Read 740 times)

frank3 · « **Reply #30 on:** June 26, 2005, 10:40:39 AM »

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Originally posted by -lynx-
I'd also hate to be a reloader on this sucker

I'd rather do that than calibrate them all!

Simaril · « **Reply #31 on:** July 02, 2005, 07:35:57 AM »

Somehow, i think that anyone loading the bay with nearly 100 submachine guns -- so they could fire downward all at once while travelling 200 mph -- would not be too concerned about the calibration.....

Toad · « **Reply #32 on:** July 02, 2005, 08:17:50 AM »

"Machines Guns in the Bomb Bay" was tried in a lot of places. Don't think I ever saw/heard of an example that made it to the production line though.

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Now for "Pappy" Gunn's exceptional contributions to the war effort with the B‑25. It was Pappy who put the 4 forward firing 50 caliber machine guns in the bombardier's compartment of B‑25 and 4 fifty caliber machine guns on the sides in two gun packages one each side of the navigators compartment.

He first tried using 30 water cooled 30 caliber machine guns in the bomb bay pointing straight downs to strafe troops in their trenches. The vibration peeled the skin or at least loosened the skin around the bomb bay so that project was abandoned.

38th Bombardment Group pilot Roy Lee Grover remembers about "Pappy" and the B-25:

Furball · « **Reply #33 on:** July 02, 2005, 08:22:56 AM »

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Originally posted by Swarmed
Don't know about the German's using a down firing MG mod for planes. I did read about night fighter 110's that had UP firing MGs. These were used to fly underneath bombers in the dark of night and let loose into the belly of the enemy planes. Pretty crafty, but some tricky flying for that one...

they also thought about using automatic firing cannon or rockets on their jet/rocket fighters, iirc a sensor detected when a bomber was directly overhead and it auto fired upwards.