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Offline Karnak

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Re: F4U-4C
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2008, 03:14:21 AM »
The American version had some small flaw, however, that made it a poor weapon when mounted in the wings, with jamming issues and such.  That's why the P-38 successfully had the M2 mounted in the nose!
Not really.  P-38s had the same problem that was basically solved with lots of grease.  For some reason we refused to adopt the British solution of changing the chamber length by about 1-2mm (I don't recall if it was longer or shorter off hand).  Wing mounted guns of all kinds are more prone to jamming.
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