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July 19th 04, 01:24 PM
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"WaltBJ" wrote in message om... I have read inan RAF history that some Canadian Halifax squadrons installed a single flexible 50 cal in a ventral mount - and were pretty suucessful at countering Schrage Musik attacks. I can well believe that - looking up through the top of a canopy at a firing 50M2 at say 100 feet would probably be the last thing an LW Nachtjaeger pilot saw. Walt BJ Trouble is a fight between an aircraft armed with 30mm cannon and one armed with a single 0.5 will mostly favour the fighter. The most successful defensive tactic was to perform an immediate evasion by flying a violent corkscrew manoeuvre Keith 
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