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[Jagdpanzer]

Don't know if this is possible, but thought I would ask. Aircraft guns were notorious in the First World War for jamming at the most inopportune times. I've been reading a first person account written by a US WW1 ace, and on almost every encounter in his SPAD XIII he experienced jamming on one or both machine guns when he tried to engage a enemy aircraft. Sometimes the gun could be cleared in combat, sometimes not.

Could a random element be implemented to simulate this in the sim? And perhaps a key command to unjam the gun, again randomly having a probability to either clear the jam or fail to do so?

I remember the old sim Red Baron 3D had this built in to it, and it aided in the immersion factor quite a bit. In that sim the longer the gun burst the more likely a jam would occur, and attempts to clear a jam would sometimes render the gun inoperable for the rest of that mission.

Is this doable?

[David Prosser]

It'd be good to see if it can be done.

[Jagdpanzer]

No interest?

[Epervier]

Random failure management does not exist in IL-2.
Only the "everything works... or it's destroyed" principle exists.
I remember tests done (FW-190) for Claymore and Tiger33... unsuccessfully and without follow-up!

[Jagdpanzer]

Random failure management does not exist in IL-2.
Only the "everything works... or it's destroyed" principle exists.
I remember tests done (FW-190) for Claymore and Tiger33... unsuccessfully and without follow-up!

Ah, I see . Thanks for the info...