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Originally Posted by John Beaman
Forgive me, I mis-interpreted the question.
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That's odd...your post is missing the last sentence for some reason. The notification I received from my Yahoo mail account has a second sentence, about the MG 151. Did the forum screw up somehow? Or was it edited, maybe? It wasn't anything that anyone should take offense over.
Anyway, the MG 151 was a whole different deal...it was designed as a belt-fed weapon, while the Hispano was not. So having access to it's mechanism wouldn't have helped the Hispano at all, unless there was a major redesign of the whole action of the gun. They could have used it to help design a new gun, but I consider the Hispano a superior weapon to the MG 151 in most aspects anyway. I guess a smaller, lighter (and weaker) gun like the MG 151 would have been handy as defensive armament on bombers, etc, or as a vehicle weapon, but there just wasn't time for all that.