More M61 inaccuracies

[microvax]

Its pretty well known that gatling guns need a little bit of spoolup time.

The m61 on the eagle uses two electric motors if I am not mistaken which are clocking around 77 horsepower.

 

This leads to a spoolup time of roughly half a second, which should lead to round about 20-25 rounds fired in the first half second instead of the usual 50.

 

I did suspect for quite some time that wasnt modelled in DCS at all but today I took it to the test.

 

For that I did slow down the time to 1/8th and fired the gun for 2 seconds realtime which translates to a quater of a second in game time, which should have clocked in at less then 10 rounds fired.

 

Surprise surprise it fires 25 rounds in the first quater second, behaving like a revolver cannon, basically completely ignoring the single tradeoff a gatling cannon really has in performance specs.

 

 

Now I would like to know where do I bugreport dis to get it fixed. :D

[Sweep]

The FC3 Eagle is just old spool, man.

[Sheepherder]

Its pretty well known that gatling guns need a little bit of spoolup time.

The m61 on the eagle uses two electric motors if I am not mistaken which are clocking around 77 horsepower.

 

This leads to a spoolup time of roughly half a second, which should lead to round about 20-25 rounds fired in the first half second instead of the usual 50.

 

I did suspect for quite some time that wasnt modelled in DCS at all but today I took it to the test.

 

For that I did slow down the time to 1/8th and fired the gun for 2 seconds realtime which translates to a quater of a second in game time, which should have clocked in at less then 10 rounds fired.

 

Surprise surprise it fires 25 rounds in the first quater second, behaving like a revolver cannon, basically completely ignoring the single tradeoff a gatling cannon really has in performance specs.

 

 

Now I would like to know where do I bugreport dis to get it fixed. :D

 

Confirmation: I emptied a full drum at slow motion (1/64 for the last few shots) and clocked it using the frame counter at almost exactly 9.4 seconds. So a constant rate of 100 rounds per second.

 

But what you know about the M61A1 installed in the teen fighters is wrong. They are hydraulically driven at 35 horsepower, it's the primer ignition system that's electronic, the assembly has a spool-up of only 0.3 seconds, and it stores a live round in the breach. Compared to a revolver cannon there is no additional delay from the time the trigger is pressed to the time the first round is fired: it's almost instantaneous. Assuming a constant spool-up rate the actual difference is 15 shots, but that assumes there isn't something like an accumulator right next to the gun transmission to give it an extra kick to begin with.

 

If anything, what's missing is the spooldown, which for every trigger pull causes a few live rounds to be ejected from the gun unfired.

 

Lower rate of fire during the spoolup means lower rate of fire, it doesn't mean additional lock time. The only major advantage a revolver cannon has is the five less gun barrels to haul around and the fact that it doesn't waste a few shots every time the trigger is pulled.

Edited February 23, 2018 by Sheepherder