On Wednesday 09 May 2001 17:49, I was honoured by a missive from Richard
Notton that said :
> The Molins gun was first fitted to HJ732 after trials in a scrap airframe,
> flew on June 8 1943 and fired a full complement of rounds, used by 618 sqdn
> and 248 sqdn proved highly successful as submarine hunters in the Bay of
> Biscay using AP shot. A total of 18 Mk VI Mosquitos were made into XVIII
> 6pdr Molins gun types and mostly operated by 248 sqdn.
>
> Molins gun:
> Weight of shell 7.1lb
> Recoil action
> Cyclic rate 60 rpm
> Weight 1800 lb
> MV 2,600ft/sec
> Capacity 22/27 rounds
> Recoil on airframe 8,000 lb
> Made by the Molins Machine Co. of Peterborough
This is getting more and more interesting; was the Molins a multi-barrel
effort, or a single barrel piece ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for good men to do nothing
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