I’ve been looking at modern fighter jets for some inspiration in my sci-fi world I’m making, and I was kinda shocked to learn the US is the odd one out for having a relatively small gatling gun with a huge rate of fire and 100s of round of ammo. Turns out most modern jets use much slower firing, higher caliber autocannons and only have like 100-200 rounds on board. Reminds me of how the US almost exclusively used a bunch of .50s on their fighter planes during WWII while the rest of the world started mounting larger cannons on their planes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fighter_aircraft
I’ve been looking at modern fighter jets for some inspiration in my sci-fi world I’m making, and I was kinda shocked to learn the US is the odd one out for having a relatively small gatling gun with a huge rate of fire and 100s of round of ammo. Turns out most modern jets use much slower firing, higher caliber autocannons and only have like 100-200 rounds on board. Reminds me of how the US almost exclusively used a bunch of .50s on their fighter planes during WWII while the rest of the world started mounting larger cannons on their planes