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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pelzig" data-source="post: 49338" data-attributes="member: 2227">Greetings, all:I've been poking through the Famous Airplanes of the World #129 on the Shinden and ran into a quandary.For those who have it, on page 20, it shows a nose cut-away showing the four 30mm cannons but in the lower portion of the nose are two 7.92mm Type 1 machine-guns and a gun camera.Now, a version of the Shinden for training purposes was proposed in which the cannons would be replaced with four Type 1 machine-guns.The Shinden specs in the book list the two Type 1 weapons and this is the only source I've ever seen that even mentions those two weapons along with the standard 30mm cannon fit.One website, if the Russian translated correctly, mentions that because the Type 5 has a relatively high rate of fire and each gun only carried 66 rounds, that the two machine-guns were used for ranging so that if the machine-gun rounds were hitting the target, the pilot could then fire the cannons with a high probability of striking successfully.So, my main question is, what is correct for the Shinden. Were the two Type 1 machine-guns to be fitted as standard or is the illustration simply showing a proposed idea.Cheers!;D</blockquote>

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