Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: lunatic1 on May 23, 2017, 01:27:22 PM
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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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This may be a bug list thing for Hitech. I have no control over things in Hitech's domain.
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The 5"/38 caliber gun had an AA range of 37,200 feet.