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Old December 8th 03, 01:13 AM
Michael Williamson
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Kurt Jeffery wrote:
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.


Presumably it was fairly common, at least if the two had similar
ballistics. I seem to recall that there was a quote in Ethell's
book on the P-38 Lightning about squadrons rewiring their aircraft
so that both MGs and cannon would fire with one switch.

Mike