[Story]Rock 'n Roll Time

[Duane Peters]

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The trouble with the X-wing design is that the weapons are all out on the wingtips... and hence, if you have a car conversion dead center in your sights, you're going to pot four shots around it.

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Not necessarily. Most wing-mounted guns are set to converge their shots, so the shots come to a single point at some given distance in front of the fighter. The standard in WW II was 300 yards, some pilots set it in closer, between 200 and 250 yards in the faster fighters, like the P-47 and P-51.
And ranging for the guns is a lot easier in this era of $75 laser rangefinders...