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Offline lunatic1

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question for bustr?
« on: May 23, 2017, 01:27:22 PM »
hey Bustr on your BowlMA map did you up the lethality of the triple A on fields and ships-- can 5" guns really shoot 20k up in real life

The 5-inch/38 gun functioned as a dual purpose gun (DP); that is, it was able to fire at both surface and air targets with a reasonable degree of success. However, this did not mean that it possessed inferior anti-air abilities. As proven during 1941 gunnery tests conducted aboard North Carolina the gun could consistently shoot down aircraft flying at 12,000–13,000 feet (2.3–2.5 mi; 3.7–4.0 km), twice the effective range of the earlier single purpose 5-inch/25 caliber AA gun.[35]


at 12,000–13,000 feet (2.3–2.5 mi; 3.7–4.0 km), twice the effective range of the earlier single purpose 5-inch/25 caliber AA gun.[35] As

my math could be wrong but 20K is higher than 13,000ft   I may be wrong just asking.

because on the BowlMA map all the guns seem to shoot higher and are more lethal than any of the other maps/terrains even the CV groups seem more lethal.
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Re: question for bustr?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2017, 01:41:43 PM »
This may be a bug list thing for Hitech. I have no control over things in Hitech's domain.
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Re: question for bustr?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2017, 01:44:57 PM »
The 5"/38 caliber gun had an AA range of 37,200 feet.
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