Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: B-29 gun turrets Message-ID: <12851@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 6 Jan 90 02:19:33 GMT References: <12815@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: NCR Corporation - USDPG Product Marketing (Dayton) Lines: 29 Approved: military@att.att.com From: steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges) In article <12815@cbnews.ATT.COM> djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) writes: > > >From: D Murphy > >Apart from the tail gunner, how were the small defensive gun turrets on >the B-29 aimed and operated ? > >Murff.... They were remotely operated from sights in the nose, the waist blisters (sides and top). There was some sort of computer switching mechinisim so that if a gunner was aiming at a target, the computer would select the proper turret to use. For example, if a target was at 12:00 high, the top forward turret would be the one to fire. If it was at 12:00 low, the lower forward turret would fire. -- Steve Bridges | NCR - USDPG Product Marketing and Support OLS Steve.Bridges@Dayton.NCR.COM | Phone:(513)-445-4182 622-4182 (Voice Plus) ..!uunet!ncrlnk!usglnk!pmday_2!steve "Helicopter 4 Mike Bravo cleared low-level to the heliport"