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Old 9th September 2008, 23:55
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Re: About WW2 fighter aircraft firing power

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Originally Posted by Rob Philips View Post
Regarding the complexities of a hitting capability definition: let's go the hard way, and see where we end. If the matter was easy, and with that most likely well known, then I would not have raised it.
Ok, harmonisation patterns, dispersion etc, are rather easy to calculate so I'll give you some references on aiming which, I believe, is a key factor on hitting probability. I dug up this kind of material from the PRO some time ago and some of these might be the same Peter Verney refered above:

AVIA 6/16177
This is RAE report on aiming simultor but it contain some flight tested data.

DSIR 23/15015
This comparison of various fighters as aiming platform.

AIR 20/12712
Aerial gunnery theory, lots of it...

AVIA 6/17286
Effects of aiming and harmonisation patterns in air to air gunnery.

AVIA 18/1626
Aiming characteristics of fighter aircraft

AIR 77/62
Review of the Aiming errors and firing tactics of Fighter aircraft. This report is particularly good because the sources include for example Luftwaffe gun camera data.
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