dooom Posted September 5, 2015 Posted September 5, 2015 OK - i get that the Mig has a gyro sight - and I know how to use such sights to great effect as I fly the P51 quite successfully with one. i am confused; however, at how to properly employ the gryo on the mig15 if the different calibre sizes vary with the guns... At what sight distance are your MG and cannon converging in this mig15? if I run out of MG and only have cannon left, does my sight compensate for the heavier round and higher "lob"/round arc? ASUS Tuf Gaming Pro x570 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 3.8 / XFX Radeon 6900 XT / 64 GB DDR4 3200 "This was not in the Manual I did not read", cried the Noob" - BMBM, WWIIOL
71st_AH Rob Posted September 5, 2015 Posted September 5, 2015 Both the 23mm and the 37mm are cannon, no machineguns in the Mig -15 and both share the low velocity and slow rate of fire, however the ballistics are still as you point out significantly different and contemporary accounts from sabre pilots in Korea claim that they saw 23mm tracers passing over the canopy and 37mm going under the aircraft at the same time so you are right to be concerned. I think the only place they converged was when the rounds left the muzzle side by side, after that they may not have crossed paths again. Remember the purpose of the 37mm was to take down bombers like the B-29, not nimble fighters like the Sabre. I believe the gyro sight is optimized to the 23mm and the 37mm is just fill the sight with a bomber and let go.
dooom Posted September 6, 2015 Author Posted September 6, 2015 thanks Rob! That helps ASUS Tuf Gaming Pro x570 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 3.8 / XFX Radeon 6900 XT / 64 GB DDR4 3200 "This was not in the Manual I did not read", cried the Noob" - BMBM, WWIIOL
71st_AH Rob Posted September 6, 2015 Posted September 6, 2015 Glad I could help. We are starting to fly Sabre vs Mig on 1(F) OTU server on Thursdays, come out and join us.
Air Wolf Posted September 20, 2015 Posted September 20, 2015 Yeah, it looks like that's accurate Rob. "The distance ranging rheostat of the ASP-3N gun sight is tuned for the NR-23 automatic cannon." - taken from pg. 142 of the full manual. So it looks like when you get your reticle set and on target, it would be for the 23 mm. So then you would have to manually compensate for the heavier 37 mm rounds. I don't however know in practice, as I'm still just trying to get comfortable with the basics of the mig-15 so far. ^_^
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