From: Adam Maas > Well, Canada did buy a bunch of F-104's. Too bad ours were low-level > nuke ground attack birds (Absolutely no air-to-air capability due to > lacking a gun prior to 1972 and a dedicated ground-attack radar > instead of the normal air-to-air set). We shoulda bought F-105 thuds > instead. > > The CF-104 killed a lot of Canadians.
AFAIK, none of the F-104s were equipped with guns. There's one minor problem with guns in super-sonic interceptors. Once the bullets leave the barrel, air resistance slows them dramatically. The aircraft, still flying at super-sonic speed, rapidly overtakes them. Doesn't matter if the bullet catches up with you from behind or you catch up with it ... the end result is still un-wanted holes in the aircraft. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
