Tyyr wrote:who had the pilots standing right beside them and worked with them hand in hand on a daily basis.
An important distinction, and one which was never mentioned in reference to the X-wings.
Tyyr wrote:P40 Warhawk
Inaccurate. The P-40E (Kittyhawk) did indeed have 3 .50's in each wing; the P-40 up to the Kittyhawk, known as the Tomahawk, had two .303's in each wing and two co-axial .50's.
Tyyr wrote:P51 Mustang
The P-51 was introduced with two wing-mounted .30's and two co-axial .30's.
Tyyr wrote:Hurricane
Hawker-built MkII-D Hurricanes (as opposed to converted MkII-B's) had a single Vickers or RR 40mm gun - I don't have it to hand, but it presumably could only be mounted on the centerline.
Tyyr wrote:FW190
The FW190,
at least through the A-6 model, had fuselage-mounted guns.
Tyyr wrote:those are all the ones just off the top of my head that had guns mounted in the wings.
They
all had guns mounted n the wings - I said that most had co-ax guns
as well.
Tyyr wrote:Also, with the down right pedestrian velocities of the laser cannon bolts fried by the X-Wing's cannons I'd say that their engagement range would be pretty predictable as in awful fucking close.
That's a whole different canon-v.-intent can of worms.