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Old 09-11-2013, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Sanjuro View Post
As one of the calmer posts on spacebattles said, the advantage of a bigger airframe for gunship use would be in longer loiter time, carrying more ammunition and more fuel. Weapons on both sides would mean that 50% of the weapons would be completely wasted in each engagement, not to mention the extra crew training time required.
What about flying a figure eight pattern centered on the target? You'd fire from the the port on one loop and starboard on the other.

(ineffecient, yes)
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