Laka Strolistandiler wrote:South Americanastan wrote:Not a cruise speed, a top speed. The cruise speed would be about Mach 1.5. .50 BMG flies at 4,000 ft/s, which equals 2,727 MPH, which is about Mach 4.
…Which doesn’t fix anything at all. MiG-25 too had a top speed of 3 M and a lower cruise speed, still behaving like a brick at subsonic speeds. If you’re looking for a more modern example, latest modifications of MiG-31 are pretty much the same story.
That depends on what it was fired from. Since you’ve specified that the guns installed on your fighters are Brownings, I’ll assume that you’re using an M3 Browning which has a muzzle velocity around 890 ms or 3204 kph. However, if we factor in the distances which the bullet has to travel before reaching the target, as well as the relative speed of the Fokker and Lightning the speed will drop even further. Compare that to an M-61 20-mm cannon which has a way higher muzzle velocity of approx 1050 ms AND which one’s round weights more, thus having higher intention thus loosing speed slower.
First off, don't even try to use the speed of the Fokker, because you don't have a goddamn factbook on it. And considering you can't be flying any faster than Mach 2 by your own logic, the .50 cal would still have a relative speed of Mach 2. I'm using M903 SLAP rounds, by the way, which can go at 4,000 ft/s and can penetrate 3/4" of armor at nearly a mile away.