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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Oldish aircraft with photographic opportunities
From: Martin Walters <mwalters1440@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:48:23 -0400
Yes. Spitfire and Hurricane both had 8 x .303s, before being equipped with a mixture of .303 or .5 mgs with 20mm canon in later marks. Typhoon had 4 x 20mm canon. P51s came with 6 x .5 mgs and, if I'm correct, the P47s had 8 x .5 mgs.


On 25/07/2018 12:31 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
      Many aircraft back then sported multiple machine guns, as many as six 
with three on each side.

That is some firepower, but I wonder if they could fire them separately,
and why they would have both sizes of weapon.  The .303 (?) machine gun
was soon judged less effective air-to-air than the 20mm cannon, and it
would certainly not have been much use for air-to-ground, unless they
wanted higher rpm for strafing soft targets in convoys, for instance.

The fighter bomber version came with 4x machine guns and 4x 20mm
cannon in the nose. There was also a photo reconnaissance version used
by both Brit and US forces (reverse lease-lend).
Chris

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