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Griefbringer -> (4/15/2003 2:51:45 AM)
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Heavy autocannons on combat vehicles might sound like a good idea, but think about the ammo consumption. There is only that much space available for ammo inside the vehicle, once you have fired them off you are in trouble. And only the ammo in turret can be fed (unless you have a fixed turret aka assault gun), any ammo carried in hull has to be manually loaded to the ammo feed.
Besides, high ammo consumption places more stress on your logistic supply train (that has to be able to transport more ammo to cope for the higher consumption), and even a bit on industry at home that needs to produce more ammo to make up for it.
So realistically, it would be effective to just make a bigger and more accurate weapon than increase the RoF to full auto.
A bit OT, I did my military service in Finnish AA-forces, in a gun battery armed with Russian twin-barrelled 23mm autocannons - pretty decent designs mechanically, but a bit lacking in accuracy against fast-flying aerial targets due to lack of electronics. These guns had a rather impressive RoF - each barrel could empty a 50 round magazine in 3 seconds, that means 1000 rounds per minute per barrel (in total 2000 rounds per minute).
Weight of a single round was about 0.2 or 0.23 kilograms, while the weight of the whole gun on carriage was around 950 kilograms.
Griefbringer
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