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Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Hey, if one 50 caliber machine gun is good, six are better, amright?
B-25 Mitchell medium bomber with 6 .50 cal machine guns added to the nose section.
One variant of the B-25 had a hard (non-glass) nose with 8 .50s, with 4 .50s in pods on the front side of the fuselage. Including the top turret and bottom turret, that would be 16 .50s pointing forward for a strafing run.
Not bad for a medium bomber.
Very useful for sinking Jap ships. Especially the wooden and shallow draft powered barges they used for inter-island transports.
Wonder how much ammo he could carry? Pilot probly shit when he hadta do the weght/bal calcs for it w/ full fuel and bomb load. Extra nose wt is good to a point from a spin perspective i guess. John h.
Great for strafing. Used extensively in the Pacific Island campaign. And then they added a 75mm cannon to the right side where the co-pilot could fire it.
this looks a lot like a Pappy Gunn field modification. he was a hell of a undocumented field engineer. also, they had hung four M2's out in the outer wing dry bays where the wing panel production joint is. North American screamed bloody murder about that one as it was-while combat effective-an structurally unsound practice. as Pappy Gunn was quoted "It's war. you do what ya gotta do"
With all six roaring, it would be hot and smoky in that cockpit.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should have turned that smell into an aftershave.
DeleteAll six pointed in different directions: that's quite the field of fire.
ReplyDeleteWas there an opening/exit for all the spent brass while in flight? (Serious question)
ReplyDeleteNot while in action. The crew could shovel the empties out by hand or by using a scoop or shovel out one of the side windows.
DeleteOr they could just leave the mess and let the ground crew clean it up.
Variants of the Douglas A-26 had Eight .50 cals
ReplyDeleteOne variant of the B-25 had a hard (non-glass) nose with 8 .50s, with 4 .50s in pods on the front side of the fuselage. Including the top turret and bottom turret, that would be 16 .50s pointing forward for a strafing run.
DeleteNot bad for a medium bomber.
Very useful for sinking Jap ships. Especially the wooden and shallow draft powered barges they used for inter-island transports.
B 25 H had a quick firing 75mm coming out the chin....
DeleteWonder how much ammo he could carry? Pilot probly shit when he hadta do the weght/bal calcs for it w/ full fuel and bomb load. Extra nose wt is good to a point from a spin perspective i guess.
ReplyDeleteJohn h.
Great for strafing. Used extensively in the Pacific Island campaign. And then they added a 75mm cannon to the right side where the co-pilot could fire it.
ReplyDeleteAn early A-10 :)
ReplyDeletethis looks a lot like a Pappy Gunn field modification. he was a hell of a undocumented field engineer. also, they had hung four M2's out in the outer wing dry bays where the wing panel production joint is. North American screamed bloody murder about that one as it was-while combat effective-an structurally unsound practice. as Pappy Gunn was quoted "It's war. you do what ya gotta do"
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