JTO and Engines,
Absolutely. Moving away from my air-to-air happy place for a moment, the Mauser with a good sighting system (did I mention that bit before?) was, frankly, superb for strafe. The sight was a death dot. Pipper on that target, that's where the rounds went.
OK, so the Gatling. Yep, sprayed a lot of rounds around the aim point and lots through it. But a big difference between the explosive capacities between 30, 27 and 20 mm rounds. Bigger rounds still very good for targets that don't move and need bigger bang.
And the 30mm guy. Well I could hit a strafe panel with it. Lots of times. The guy in the semi-hard vehicle on the receiviing end probably wouldn't care what the muzzle velocity was. He just probably wanted to die.
Forgive me, slightly flippant, but you know what I mean.