Originally Posted by
henra
How accurate was the Gunpod on the F-4?. I seem to remember that the Americans where rather not so happy with the accuracy of their pods. Did it restrict g-limits? In other words: Was it more considered a benefit or a hindrance for A2A by the 'users'?
To some degree whether it was a benefit or not depended on the Rules of Engagement which of course (?) takes us back to the whole messy story of an internal gun having to be fitted to later variants.
As for accuracy…one for the ex-weapons instructors to answer…, personally I felt that given when wound up (which fortunately it generally was not when firing air to air) the gun was chucking out 100 rounds per second I guess an argument could have been made for the grouping to be less tight.
We had a phase (post Falklands) of doing air to ground with the gun and that
was lots of fun.