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Title: AR234 update
Post by: OLtos on July 30, 2011, 01:09:42 AM
I would like to see the AR234 updated so that a rear gun position was added.  Not a position that you could actually man.  I believe that the pilot of that craft had a periscope he could aim the rear cannon with.  In point of fact the periscope exists in the cockpit art.  It would be nice if it worked.

OLtos
Title: Re: AR234 update
Post by: Karnak on July 30, 2011, 01:13:36 AM
Quote from: OLtos on July 30, 2011, 01:09:42 AM
I would like to see the AR234 updated so that a rear gun position was added.  Not a position that you could actually man.  I believe that the pilot of that craft had a periscope he could aim the rear cannon with.  In point of fact the periscope exists in the cockpit art.  It would be nice if it worked.

OLtos
Newer evidence indicates no operational Ar234 had the guns, so it is likely to lose them when updated. At least that is what the recent thread about it was claiming.
Title: Re: AR234 update
Post by: Raptor05121 on July 30, 2011, 01:30:46 AM
um, doesnt the Ar234 have a rear gun? a squaddie told me the other day he got a kill with it
Title: Re: AR234 update
Post by: Tyrannis on July 30, 2011, 01:31:21 AM
Quote from: OLtos on July 30, 2011, 01:09:42 AM
I would like to see the AR234 updated so that a rear gun position was added.  Not a position that you could actually man.  I believe that the pilot of that craft had a periscope he could aim the rear cannon with.  In point of fact the periscope exists in the cockpit art.  It would be nice if it worked.

OLtos
I made a topic along time ago about the Ar234's periscope, and i believe it was determined that the periscope was never actually used to aim those guns.
Title: Re: AR234 update
Post by: 100Coogn on July 30, 2011, 04:14:11 AM
Quote from: Raptor05121 on July 30, 2011, 01:30:46 AM
um, doesnt the Ar234 have a rear gun? a squaddie told me the other day he got a kill with it

It has a rear gun, just no way to really aim it.  Poke and hope.

Coogan
Title: Re: AR234 update
Post by: Spikes on July 30, 2011, 09:45:56 AM
Quote from: 100Coogn on July 30, 2011, 04:14:11 AM
It has a rear gun, just no way to really aim it.  Poke and hope.

Coogan
Want to test that theory?
Title: Re: AR234 update
Post by: fbWldcat on July 30, 2011, 10:27:15 AM
I love dogfighting with the AR234. The overall effectiveness of the gun with anyone who doesn't know how to aim it goes down drastically. If anyone wants to destroy the 234, they only have to learn how to not get on the six, and figure out when that tail is mysteriously coming towards you.

Quote from: 100Coogn on July 30, 2011, 04:14:11 AM
It has a rear gun, just no way to really aim it.  Poke and hope.

Coogan

Wrong. You can aim.
Title: Re: AR234 update
Post by: lyric1 on July 30, 2011, 10:28:49 AM
Quote from: Spikes on July 30, 2011, 09:45:56 AM
Want to test that theory?
Theory is fine :aok Facts on the other hand say other wise. :devil


http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,305406.0.html


Title: Re: AR234 update
Post by: 1Nicolas on July 31, 2011, 10:53:13 AM
+1!
Title: Re: AR234 update
Post by: 100Coogn on July 31, 2011, 07:08:26 PM
Quote from: fbWldcat on July 30, 2011, 10:27:15 AM
I love dogfighting with the AR234. The overall effectiveness of the gun with anyone who doesn't know how to aim it goes down drastically. If anyone wants to destroy the 234, they only have to learn how to not get on the six, and figure out when that tail is mysteriously coming towards you.

Wrong. You can aim.

I'm talking about aiming the gun independently from the plane.  Not using F3 mode, looking back and moving the plane around.   :lol

Coogan
Title: Re: AR234 update
Post by: Spikes on July 31, 2011, 07:14:01 PM
Quote from: 100Coogn on July 31, 2011, 07:08:26 PM
I'm talking about aiming the gun independently from the plane.  Not using F3 mode, looking back and moving the plane around.   :lol

Coogan
It was a fixed gun.