[Radoye]

First off, thanks very much to whoever it was that gave us the B-25G and H mod. ~S~

However, I have to ask, do you have some bit of information that states that the big gun's rate of fire is one round every twelve seconds? I'm aware that the gun was manually reloaded, but twelve seconds seems extremely slow. I was just watching WWII footage of soldiers firing and reloading an anti-tank gun. It took less than half the time. It takes less time to reload a Howitzer. Even if it took longer to reload the gun in the B-25, would it really take more than twice as long?

As it is now, I can't fire that thing more than once in a strafing pass. That just doesn't seem right at all. With it's 21 rounds it'll take about twenty minutes to expend all that ammunition with repeated passes.

I.D.

Well one thing is that with a regular artillery piece you have a whole team of 4-5 soldiers who operate the gun and take care that fresh ammo is always at hand, passing it directly to the loader who then just have to open the breech, get the spent casing out and put a fresh shell in and close the breech again; also, the spent casings are immediately moved out of the way - everything is taken care of, and still it takes 4-5 seconds to get a shot off.

Now in a cramped nose of the plane first there's a lot less room to move about and to work in, second the gun is operated by just one guy - maybe two - who now has to do everything by himself, to both fetch the ammo and get rid of spent casings as well as to load and operate the gun. Suddenly the workload has doubled or even tripled, and have i mentioned the cramped conditions in the nose of the plane yet? I did? Well i believe it needs to be mentioned again.

All in all, given the circumstances, 5 shots a minute (which one shot every 12 seconds comes to) is not at all bad...