why sm91 tail gunner doesnt shoot??????????

[Fitonauta]

THAT
WHY??????
i have alays enemies behind me stedy on my thail an the MF doesnt shot!!!!!!!!!!!!

[neldot]

Because it got Gaijined.

They didn't find in the original documents any information about the exact traverse of the turret gun, so they arbitrarily fixed it at only 2°, that is honestly preposterous, because no engineer in his right mind would have projected a turret that could fire only if the enemy on your tail is perfectly placed at a narrow angle between 88° and 92°, something that, as you can see, never happens, so the turret would just never fire.

[neldot]

Sorry, I was talking of the SM.92, I realized that you mentioned the SM.91, that, unlike the SM.92, has a correct turret traverse.

Are you sure that the SM.91 turret doesn't fire at all? Is it in air realistic? Because it works for me in arcade. In air RB the turret gunners tend to be pretty sleepy.

[Dozz]

Originally posted by neldot:

Sorry, I was talking of the SM.92, I realized that you mentioned the SM.91, that, unlike the SM.92, has a correct turret traverse.

Are you sure that the SM.91 turret doesn't fire at all? Is it in air realistic? Because it works for me in arcade. In air RB the turret gunners tend to be pretty sleepy.

to comment on both, the Tail "Gunner" is bugged and does not auto fire most times, you have to manual fire it, outside of that i have no idea what the issue could be if its just not shooting at ALL

[AttackerCat]

Yes, it rarely shoots on it's own, but not for the reason you think.

The gun only has +/- 2 degrees of depression/elevation, so the cone of fire for it is so extremely narrow it's rare to have a valid firing angle.

[Illusionyary]

Originally posted by neldot:

Because it got Gaijined.

They didn't find in the original documents any information about the exact traverse of the turret gun, so they arbitrarily fixed it at only 2°, that is honestly preposterous, because no engineer in his right mind would have projected a turret that could fire only if the enemy on your tail is perfectly placed at a narrow angle between 88° and 92°, something that, as you can see, never happens, so the turret would just never fire.

The Arado tail guns were completely fixed directly behind it.

[AttackerCat]

Originally posted by neldot:

because no engineer in his right mind would have projected a turret that could fire only if the enemy on your tail is perfectly placed at a narrow angle between 88° and 92°

As mentioned there was an Arado model that did this
And the Pe-3
And the He-111H-6
And the Ki-21 Hei
And the MB 174

It was actually somewhat of a typical modification on many aircraft.