parasocko2
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Tail guns Ammo expenditure
Do the tail guns use 1 or 2 boxes of ammo everytime they fire? I've been marking down 1 box and haven't even come close to using half the ammo. Reading the dmg chart for the waist section, I get the idea that 2 boxes should be checked off per firing...w/ 6 for spray fire...comments?
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3/19/2007, 6:04 pm
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Re: Tail guns Ammo expenditure
I don't think it's remotely possible to use all the tail ammo in a mission. Well, maybe with spray fire.
It's been a while, but I think I came to the conclusion that one box represented 25 rounds per gun by comparing the original B-17 charts to acutal ammunition loads. I don't remember where I got this, but I think Lancasters carried 10,000 rounds for the tail guns, or 2500 rounds per gun, or 100 boxes.
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3/20/2007, 2:54 am
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Re: Tail guns Ammo expenditure
Besides other useful detail This Lancaster website;
http://www.pilotfriend.com/photo_albums/timeline/ww2/Avro%20Lancaster.htm
Quotes the following:-
"4 × 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Browning Mk II trainable rearward-firing machine-guns in the power-operated Frazer-Nash F.N.20A tail turret with 2,500 rounds per gun using a Barr & Stroud G Mk III reflector or Gyro Mk IIc sight."
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3/20/2007, 11:38 am
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Re: Tail guns Ammo expenditure
25 rounds per box.
Hi Eric,
I came to the same conlclusion while I was working on B-26, so it seems that 25 rounds per box would be correct.
Magnus.
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3/21/2007, 12:25 pm
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