Originally Posted by
rolling20
I believe the 109E had 2 cannons Intially, then the F had one through the nose. The 110 had 2. I can't find any German aeroplane that had hundreds however.
The early E's only had the single MG/FF cannon mounted above the engine firing through the spinner, plus the 2 x MG's above them and the 2 x MG's in the wings, but they had lots of problems with overheating and vibration with the engine mounted cannon, so they came up with a mod in the later E's to replace the 2 x MG in the wing with 2 x MG/FF cannon, but like us these were also 60 rd drum mag fed, so ammo limit for the cannon was an issue, although the 1000 rds of MG ammo for the 2 x MG's in the nose meant that they were often relying on just 2 x MG's and their air gunnery skills to shoot down any aircraft. In fact there's evidence that the Luftwaffe pilots were thus envious of the 8 x MG's of the RAF..!!
Again, there early F-0's were not liked by the Luftwaffe pilots because they again only had the 1 x MG/FF through the spinner and the 2 x MG's in the nose. Again, later F-2's onwards corrected this with the excellent MG151/15 15mm cannon and later MG151/20 cannons.