Here's my attemp at an accurate gun profile for the Ju-87g

  This is one aircraft that I have information on in abundance. The 
Stuka is one of my favorite planes of all time and I have numerous 
books on it.  So I've attemped to model the guns as accurately as 
possible.

  The tail gun may be the first thing people notice that's odd about 
this plane, I gave it two barrels flashing because it was suppossed to have 
them, but the visual model only has one barrel. No Ju87g ever went operational 
with only one rear firing machine gun (not that I could find out). I wanted 
this plane to have a fighting chance, it should as it has no forward firing 
guns (except the 37mm cannon). As pilot, your gunner will be sleeping so 
don't count on him for help.  
  The tail gun type was a twin MG81Z 7.9mm, with 850 rounds per barrel 
and supposedly capable of 3000 rounds a minute but that is a theoretical fire 
rate.  It could fire that fast but it would melt the barrel if you fired for 
any longer than a few seconds. That's 50 rounds per second, most guns in CFS 
only do about 14 rps, so I set it to 20 rps.
  The cannons were Flak 18 antiaircraft guns, pressed into an anti-tank 
role by slinging them under the wings of an aircraft.  They were 
capable of firing 140 rounds per minute but each gun only had 12 rounds, 
carried in two 6 shot clips.  I found that muzzle velocity of 
this gun was between 820 and 914 meters per second (depending what type of 
ammunition was used) in one book, and just 860 in the other book. I'm using 
the armor piercing rounds stated by the first book to go at 914 meters 
per second but I rounded it down to 900 because of what the other 
book said.  Each shell should have weighed just over 2 kg, which is
what I set them at unless my math was way off.  Exact weight for the
Minengranatpatrone 18 (standard armor-piercing) shell is 202g of propellent,
1415g for the cartridge and 550g for the shell itself.  The tracer 
should show for 4.1 seconds, with a range of 2000 meters but I left 
it at 2 seconds, same as the defaults for other guns because it slows 
the game down if you turn that number up I hear.  The cannon do converge 
but I'm not sure the exact range, I want to experiment a bit first, 
an accurate model will come out when I do an accurate damage profile.
  There are no bombs or forward firing machine guns for this type.  
The "G" series had it's dive brakes removed, and hardpoints changed 
to allow mounting of the cannon.  Forward firing machine guns were 
also removed to save weight.
  I increased the armor to most aircraft systems, most only by a few points 
but fuselage structure and wing structures I increased a fair bit over the 
default Stuka.  The G series was a heavily armored version, so this should be 
okay.

  I didn't make this plane model and I don't know who did.  All I 
made was a gun profile.Whoever it was that did, thank-you, nothing I've done 
could have been possible without your work.


  To install, create a folder in your aircraft directory called 
"ju87g" and put all the files in there.


 Comments, complaints, problems, tips, suggestions always welcome.

psiico@sprint.ca

