Unbelievable until you see it, the recoil on the airframe must have been amazing:
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'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
Personally, I would think those 75mm equipped Mitchell bombers would be very good at an anti-shipping role, and better suited than against ground targets. The present day AC-130 Spectre gunships have the cannon mounted in the side so that it orbits the target to engage instead of making a straight-in gun run as the Mitchells obviously did.
Having personally benefited from interventions from AC-47 Spooky and AC-119 Shadow aircraft I can tell you that their orbit engagements were efficient and effective.
Yes they were designed for that A S role also look at the one that had I think 12 50 cals in the nose for GA role. The Germans had a long barreled 75mm on I think the HS 129
also they mounted a 75mm on the ME 262 which required a counter weighted tail
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Originally Posted by Sentryduty
