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-jagr-

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G Effects on Weapons Performance?
« on: July 30, 1999, 01:43:00 PM »
Pyro,
     Will there be weapon Jamming?  Will there be a higher liklihood to jam for non electrically fired weapons and for weapons under a G load?

     It would be interesting if you couldn't just lock the trigger down and enter a 7G yank like you see a lot in the WB arena's without risking jamming those guns...


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G Effects on Weapons Performance?
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 1999, 02:35:00 PM »
"During the last year of the war aircraft of the 2nd Tactical Air Force alone fired 13500000 rounds of 20 mm ammunition at a stoppage rate of one per 1500 rounds fired, mostly due to badly-made-up belts."

Spitfire with 240 rounds per flight you'd get stoppage every...


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G Effects on Weapons Performance?
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 1999, 11:27:00 AM »
In the last alpha build, my guns would sometimes stop firing and I would have to smack my keyboard a couple of times to get them back.  Other testers reported their guns would not stop firing.  Does that count as modeling jams and cook-off?  Should we move that from the bug list to the feature list?




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G Effects on Weapons Performance?
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 1999, 03:21:00 PM »
Fats,

         That would be one every 6 flights..and that a BIG deal if you on hop number 6 and your guns stop working    My comment wa smore geared towards the times the liklihood of jamming would go up IF you fired..like high G load situations.  The US specs for a 20mm to replace the Hispano used the MG151 for an example since it was specifically electrically fired and not recoil or gas operated..  So if people knew that yanking into a high G turn and hosing someone would cause frewuent jamming maybe there'd be more ACM and less jousting..

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G Effects on Weapons Performance?
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 1999, 05:02:00 PM »
gee...can we model the rust on the rivets too.....


I dont want to Pay $2 an hour for GUNJAMS...Ill shoot Gun Jams down...but dont want to have to fly with them.

<SMIRK> I actually think it would be kewl....I just couldnt resist the obvious oppurtunity to play on words..

hehe Smooches GJ!

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