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Old December 8th 03, 07:11 AM
Nele VII
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In Soviet Red Army, P-39 Aircobras had four 12.7mm and one 37mm gun. The
Soviet ace, Pokryshkin, noticed that pilots are coming home with full 37mm
magazines. He disovered it was because of the unsuitable location of 37 mm
gun trigger. Then he ordered that all armament is coupled on one trigger.
Once it proved sucessful, he ordered same modification to entire squadron
and wrote to HQ about this problem, so most Soviet Aircobras were firing
12.7 & 37mm guns by pressing one trigger instead of two.

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Nele

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Kurt Jeffery wrote in message ...


On a fighter equipped with machine guns and 20mm cannon, how common was it
to fire BOTH weapons at the same time?

Thanks in advance for your response.