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Originally Posted by JtD
Actually, the only single shot kill to the R-2800 is hitting the ignition, on top of the hub in the P-47. No armour or backup system there in real life, a clear one shot kill.
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How big is the 'ignition' on the R-2800? What percentage of area inside the cowl (viewed from head-on) does it represent? How often does the average two or three shot burst of 7mm into the cowl from a rear gunner kill the engine?
If the answer to the last question is is a greater number than the answers to the the first questions, something is
very wrong. Hitting one of the ignition coils(?) on top of the crankcase from over 200m is a
classic Golden BB, and should be vanishingly rare.
It is not vanishingly rare.
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