Recent content by TonyE

I am not an aviation historian, my interest being in the weapons and particularly their ammunition. Although mention has been made in this thread and on the linked Spitfire site of other potential armament options at the beginnning of the war, I have seen no details of one of the serious...

As I said in the previous post, most of the errors arise from confusing WWI production with WW2 production. When W-C lists the ammunition for use in Browning and Vickers K guns he is talking about the period from say, 1935 to 1945. Some of the points that need correction are: Primer...

Mmmm.. I am sure Wallace Clark is excellent on the technical details of the turrets given his background, but his section on .303 inch ammunition is very poor and full of errors, mainly confusing WWI period ammunition types and makers with WWII ones. I will post corrections later when I have...

The links unhook. The curved tongue fits into the slot on the next link and the round prevents them coming undone. Once the round is extracted the links are free to seperate. Unfortunately, as I don't collect German ammo I no longer have examples to photograph. If you don't have a copy of...

Ivan The photograph is correctly captioned. Am I correct in thinking from your post that you have never actually handles these rounds and links? When the round is withdrawn from the link it allows the link to disengage from the next link. The attached is from Chinn, Volume 3, Section 5...

No, both the Mk103 and MK108 used disintegrating belts. Also do not forget the British aircraft Vickers guns which used disintegrating links. There were three marks of links starting from 1917. Regards TonyE

Gentlemen - This is my first post, but I suspect some of you may know me as I certainly recognise some names from other fora. k9kiwi posted the following extracts fro Wallace Clark's books on RAF armament: Identification of 7.7 mm (0.303 in) ammunition used in the Browning and Vickers K...