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Originally Posted by Rob Philips
Harri demonstrates to be a close reader. Shall try to match that and state that we also agree that muzzle velocity is a factor when talking about aiming error. I'm not sure how important that factor is. That may change as we proceed.
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I've tried to stay on my original point on relation between muzzle velocity and hitting probability. However, aiming error is another issue despite connected to the muzzle velocity due to easier aiming.
Things get very complicated when increasing number of factors are accounted; I have not even touch the factors like rate of fire, lenght of the burst and density of projectiles in the target area (dispersion in other words). I have seen probably similar analysis as mentioned by Peter Verney above; as example RAE did analysis on gun camera films (real combat footage from RAF, USAF and GAF and simulated attacks) and studied many factors like aim wander and error, lenght of the burst etc. were measured and analysed.
I think you have couple possibilities here. The easy way is to stay strictly on easily measurable factors like rate of fire, muzzle velocity and energy content and in the end you have probably very similar results as Tony got. The hard way is to try to understand how these more or less random factors like aim wander and error, dispersion, burst lenght etc. affect on different guns.