Hello over there: just finished playing the UbiSoft 'Pacific Fighters' (Quick Combat).
I have only flown transports, but enjoy this amazingly graphic computer game and always am curious about machine gun bullets and 23 or 37 mm cannon rounds.
Also have the dvd "Battle of Britain", was just thinking about it and suddenly a question came to mind.
Despite the fact that the Spitfires and under-appreciated Hurricanes had either six or eight guns per plane, were the shells a good bit longer with much more gunpowder than those loaded into the Lee-Enfield rifles? Curious about the impact force of "rifle-caliber" bullets, and could not picture about six or so rifles, even if flown at high speed, able to tear into the wing tanks or engines on a Ju-88, Do-17, Me-110 or He-111 with much damage caused. But maybe many rounds had incendiaries?
Have seen gun-camera footage from a P-47 firing at ground targets-the impacts of those eight 50 caliber bullets in one small area looks like a serious explosion, despite the grainy old black and white film .
