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[StartQuote] Ed Can you contact me at mosquitofleet@comcast.net By the way the model of the Thunderbolt is wonderful. You did a bang up job. With all that fire-power and a power turret, I still can't see why more boats did not have them. Although the 40MM was a more powerful weapon against enemy barges and small surface craft, the way it was manually used was a bit odd. One guy had the contols that operated the gun going left and right, the other the up and down movement. You had to really read each other's mind to get the target. The guy that fired the weapon did not control the up and down movement of the gun, so it must have been a real pain to tell the guy next to you, up, down, no up a little more. The gun was not that good for Planes as well. Being a manual weapon, the plane would be here and gone before you could get the gun trained on the target. I am sure that the boats 50 caliber weapons and 20mm cannons did most of the damge when it came to planes and other targets. It would seem to me that the Thunderbolt, being a power turret and having one man operate it would be a real gem against certain targets. Against the barges though, maybe not. I would love to know the success rate of this weapon on the small number of boats that did have them. [EndQuote]
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