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This parsing of the snap-shot situation concluding a half second
advantage in fire weight - even a full second - is rather disingenuous in that a skilled pilot will see the possibility of a snap shot developing and be already firing before the non-tracked target passes through the zone of fire. I well remember that gun camera film of Korean War F86 pilot Major Pete Fernandez' ninety degree shot on a MiG 15 - he was firing before the MiG entered the pcture - hits plastered the MiG and it went out of the frame smoking badly. IN WW2 one of the 'experten' jumped Sailor Malan - Malan broke into his attacker and hosed him on a quartering head-on shot. The attacker was wounded badly and had to break for home. His name doesn't come to me at the moment. I maintain the M61 can hold its own in any situation. Situation awareness is the key. Without that the impulsive squeeze of the trigger as an aircraft passes swiftly in front of you is generally futile as the rounds will pass behind him. Walt BJ |
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