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Re: How effective was Schrage Musik?
In engineering terms, the installation of long guns vertically into a shallow fuselage, whilst ensuring feed mechanisms and low drag, doesn't seem achievable. In flying terms, aiming directly upwards wouldn't be particularly easy, nor maintaining formation on a bomber that could be carrying out unpredictable changes of direction. Both are much easier with the fighter positioned a little behind. Sometimes idealised theories don't work out for good practical reasons.
I suspect the choice of angle came from trials, and it is what it is because that worked best.
As for its success, I think that would need a good statistical study which, if it exists, I haven't seen. However the more successful fighter pilots seem to have favoured it, which is a fairly strong hint.
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