convergence with 200 is pushing it for machine guns for me. I like 100 or 150.
Yes, He's are better if you come in from the front. You could spend days shooting from the rear and nothing.
Also diving from on top and spraying the engines / wing root helps but front is best.
Oh and the grip/group of machine guns = firing rate of a minigun. No dice. Stop spreading mis information.
1) If anyone read that Robert Shaw book, he goes into detail (and with a chart) why auto cannons / machine guns were surpassed by Gatling cannon types.
2) I know a chopper gunship pilot who served when they had hueys, before they got the cobras. They tried the 8-10-12 7.62 mm combos with m-60's and other 7.62 machine guns. Then they found out one 7.62mm minigun really waxed the floor and put more rounds on the spot than any of the machine gun combinations.
3) its no mystery why the vulcan quickly became gun of choice for the American fighter / attack planes.
4) the Airforce realized the same thing the army did in #2 when they were developing the spooky . . . and the minigun became weapon of choice.
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