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Old 10th September 2013, 18:59
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Re: Why does He 177 have two nose gun positions?

Hello Johnny
It looks like that the MG 151/20 on the gondola nose was handheld so the canopy MG 81 was needed for upper hemisphere frontal defence.

Juha

PS I found the manual, yes the MG 151/20 had the movement of +7 - -55deg and 15 deg Left and Right
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