By: antoni - 16th June 2014 at 22:43
“The ammunition hopper held five ‘chargers’. Each of these ‘chargers’ had a ‘base guide’ and a ‘nose guide’, which could hold up to five rounds of 6pdr shells. The usual load was 5-4-5-4-5”.
Alex Crawford, Shipbuster Mosquito Mk XVIII “Tse-tse” An Operational History, Mushroom Model Publications.
Yes, I paid more than £5.99 for my copy.
By: Moggy C - 16th June 2014 at 22:16
You can add 23 rounds as well
The Molins Gun, which was technically known to the RAF as the “QF 6 pdr Class M Mark I with Auto Loader Mk III” was based on the long-barreled (50 calibre) gun. The gun weighed 487 kg (635 kg with autoloader) and was fully automatic, with a rate of fire of about 55 rounds-per-minute. The ammunition supply in the autoloader consisted of 21 rounds, held in five racks of unequal length, plus two additional rounds in the feedway.
http://www.combatreform.org/cannonfighter.htm
Moggy
By: David Burke - 16th June 2014 at 21:26
FlyPast ran an article on the type circa 1984 from memory.
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