Shandorf Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 And its an easy one. What is the ROF of a Hotchkiss H39? Thanks! Shandorf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakthrough Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 Probably was as high as 20 rounds a minute. The short 37mm was a 'Trench Gun' from WW I designed for rapid fire in close support of infantry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexford Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 Originally posted by Shandorf: And its an easy one. What is the ROF of a Hotchkiss H39? Thanks! Shandorf With a one man turret crew, the rate of fire probably would be much lower than what would be attained with a field gun. If the tank were trying to hit a moving across the line of fire target then the rate of fire goes down even more since the turret guy has to estimate target lead, rotate the turret with the moving tank and then jump ahead to the necessary lead, pull the trigger, watch the fall of shot and hit result, go back for more ammo on misses or bouncers and start the lead thing again, etc. And if the first target is knocked out, how long to pick up on another target and start the firing procedure. One man turrets would probably have many drawbacks including rate of fire. [ August 03, 2003, 06:42 PM: Message edited by: rexford ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDA Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 in CMBO... H-39 Hotchkiss (37f) 705m/s slow turret 7 shots/min (for regular crews) 5 blast from Chris Hare's CM1 tables. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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