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Old 11-12-2010, 08:21 PM
Oleg Maddox Oleg Maddox is offline
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Originally Posted by Jaws2002 View Post
Some aircraft cannon shells have a self destruct fuse. I remember I read somwhere a distance of 1100 meters/3 seconds mentioned as self distruct distance for 20mm Mg151 shells. I could be wrong about the distance and of course the MG-FF may have a different fuse.
That's what you see in the clip. The 109 was around that range and his shells exploded just under the Blem, but stil do nice damage.
Correct. It is shown exactly. The explosions not under the aircraft but on long distance before his nose really.
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