No I'm not. I'm simply telling how it is. MG/FF was originally developed by Oerlikon and then later manufactured under licence by Ikaria. MK108 on the other hand was developed by Rheinmetall-Borsig. Two different firms and two different cannons.
Where exactly did you read that MG FF was the origin of MK108-design? A source please?
My first point stands. You are being far too literal. I didn't say it was from the same manufacturer. I didn't say it was scaled up. They took the basic design of the MG/FF and in 1940 built a larger, heavier, weapon based upon those mechanisms and action. Since English isn't your first language I'll put it simply in this way: That's the idea they started with. The end result doesn't look like an MG/FF, but that's what started the idea.
I've read this in some publication a long time back, and run across it on the Internet a couple of days ago which also had the same comment.
Don't mix up the point I was making... I was NOT saying the Mk108 was a bad anti-bomber weapon. I'm NOT saying that it wasn't used to hunt bombers. I am saying it was developed and designed BEFORE any bombers were even a hint on the global map.
Do you deny that the Mk108 began development in 1940? That its development was independently funded in the hopes of a possible contract? That while in development already, it just happened to meet a later RLM order for weapons to use against bombers? And that the requirement it met was NOT in destructive power, but in being able to fire from outside the bombers' range? These are the facts. These points and many others (which I've already mentioned in my previous post) point to the fact that heavier weapons were needed or wanted, but not just for the wikipedia copy-and-paste answer given here by some others.
This gun was in the pipeline LONG before the Luftwaffe ever encountered US heavy bombers. It had a prolonged development and was full of delays, and when it came out finally in late 1943 it was indeed used against bombers. The changing tide of war required its use against bombers. But it wasn't developed for them.