Turret Gunner Controls

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Originally Posted by Wutz

Don´t get me wrong if hard facts state certain aircraft turrets where slow by all means, but the original post reads very much, that all turrets should be slow and that I do not quite believe. And when I think of that twin 20mm anti aircraft gun although a ground stationed gun and weighing a lot more than any aircraft gun, how fast that moved. I just get the feeling some one is hoping to push an advantage to make up for his own lackings.
If there are referances by all means then have the proper turning speeds, but please no guess work or what some one thinks it should be, that will only start flame wars. Also it seems some are forgeting that compared to a fighter a bomber is a fairly stable gun platform. I just have to smirk how many times I have taken a gunners position in a bomber and bagged a fighter, and then read a comment from that pilot about darn sniping AI gunners, that really makes me laugh.

I already said that the powered turrets in 1940 had a traverse speed of 30-40 degrees a second. There are loads of references to this all over the internet.


Funnily enough I've never seen a reference to a pilot leaving his seat to go off and fire the guns whilst still flying his plane. If you want the full real experience then you shouldn't be able to switch seats, but it's a game and you can and nobody complains about it.