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gunnut · 07-28-2007, 22:54 PM

That's a very good question and I don't know the answer.

The only 2 examples of recoil dampener on a gun that I know of are the 75mm cannon mounted on some B-25s in WW2 and the 30mm chaingun mounted on the Apache. It's kinda obvious for the 75mm to have recoil mechanism on the B-25. I think the 30mm on the Apache has recoil dampeners because it can fire in all direction, not just centerline forward. No recoil dampener might not be a good idea firing sideways.

The 50 cal Ma Duece fires on the short recoil principle, so that's almost like a recoil dampener. That might be enough for the guns mounted in the wings of fighters in WW2. I don't know about those mounted in bomber turrets. The waist gunners in B-17s and B-24s had hydraulic mounts to dampen the recoil.

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gunnut *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 01-27-06 Location: DPRK, Democratik People's Republik of Kalifornia Posts: 10,274 Country:	That's a very good question and I don't know the answer. The only 2 examples of recoil dampener on a gun that I know of are the 75mm cannon mounted on some B-25s in WW2 and the 30mm chaingun mounted on the Apache. It's kinda obvious for the 75mm to have recoil mechanism on the B-25. I think the 30mm on the Apache has recoil dampeners because it can fire in all direction, not just centerline forward. No recoil dampener might not be a good idea firing sideways. The 50 cal Ma Duece fires on the short recoil principle, so that's almost like a recoil dampener. That might be enough for the guns mounted in the wings of fighters in WW2. I don't know about those mounted in bomber turrets. The waist gunners in B-17s and B-24s had hydraulic mounts to dampen the recoil. __________________ "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb. Last edited by gunnut : 07-28-2007 at 22:58 PM.