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IL-2 Sturmovik The famous combat flight simulator.

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Old 12-14-2010, 09:17 PM
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the barrels of the MG-FF/M ended long before the holes in the nose, they ended ~ below the pilot seat ! the shells had to "fly" through over-caliber tubes.(
That means, if you fired at high g, you could hit the inside of the blast tubes! I wonder whether any aircraft were damaged or lost that way?
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Old 12-14-2010, 09:22 PM
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i think they saved the heavy guns for acccurate shooting, for high g deflection shooting the 4 mg17 should been enough
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Old 12-15-2010, 01:03 PM
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That means, if you fired at high g, you could hit the inside of the blast tubes! I wonder whether any aircraft were damaged or lost that way?
That's impossible because the g value for something like this to occur is far too high.
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