Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Pongo on December 23, 2008, 12:17:25 AM
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http://www.footnote.com/image/32443909/#39053692 (http://www.footnote.com/image/32443909/#39053692)
Not the most elegant mounting.
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http://www.footnote.com/image/32443909/#39053692 (http://www.footnote.com/image/32443909/#39053692)
Not the most elegant mounting.
Ouch. 8/.50 cals and dual 20mm Hispanos??? Wow, just wow. Any info on service strength? Did it see combat? ;)
I bet it would handle like it was carrying 2/1k bombs. Not bad if it had the E.
Perhaps the perfect destroyer destroyer?
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Oh my...gosh.
"Republic P-47 Of The 78Th Fighter Group With 20Mm Guns Mounted On The Wings. 8Th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England. 24 October 1944."
Wow.
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I think I just creamed my pants :O
YYYYYEEEEEEESSSS!!!
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If you cant kill with 8......
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Probably a field mod.
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No.
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Holy dump!
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I'd imagine it wouldn't be very good for air to air. Was probably a air to ground modification for strafing airfields and collumns of vehicles and stuff like that. If its anything like the pylon mounted gatling guns on the Phantom II in Vietnam it has a built in spray pattern to make it more effective vs. ground targets, but terrible in the air.
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That would be like having the gondolas on the 109. They wouldn't be worth it for air-to-air work.
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damnnnn, that'd be scary
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Before you guys wet yourselves, it was an experimental installation tried in August 1944 and discarded due to excessive vibration.
LOL poor guys having to survive with only 8 50s and all those rounds in your Jugs :)
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More to the point, that's a hell of a link.
WWII sub patrol reports? For free? MACRs? For free?
This may take several weeks...
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Who needs to aim! :O
If you see red dots in front of you just hold down the fire button until they all disappear! :lol
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"I love cannons"
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I imagine that 4 cannons and heckuvalot of ammo could be fit in the Jugs wings.
But really, having *eight* guns with the .50's trajectory and ROF has it's own virtues. Though each individual round may have less power, I believe one is more likely to hit something vital (especially the pilot) just through the sheer number of rounds in the air.
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that would be too rare to have in the game..
oh wait we have the 3 gun LA7
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People saying it wouldn't be good for AHII... for 1, the Jug doesn't turn very good anyways, it's best at BnZ, this just backs up the case even more :)
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People saying it wouldn't be good for AHII... for 1, the Jug doesn't turn very good anyways, it's best at BnZ, this just backs up the case even more :)
P-47 will turn with almost everything in it's speed class, especially the D-11. The glaring exception being F4Us. Which is not to say it's necessarily a *good* idea to slow down and t'n'b in one at the first opportunity, a slow Jug being a favorite target for the flying monkeys.
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That would be like having the gondolas on the 109. They wouldn't be worth it for air-to-air work.
Yah...it wouldn't turn for cr---oh yah, it doesn't NOW :)
(well....would certainly hamper its awesome roll rate)