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Mike Sutton's Typhoon touches on the Typhoon's 27mm Mauser, how it was going to be deleted to save money but designing the ballast to replace it was perversely more expensive so they left it in. Technical issues with jamming still hadn't been solved when he used it in action in 2014, jamming after just 26 rounds during a strafing run over Iraq.The problem is that guns are seen as lower priority back-up weapons and their integration and ironing out of mechanical faults takes a back seat when resources have to be channelled into other development areas. A cannon that jams in a relatively stable diving strafing attack is going to be useless in a high-G dogfight.
Mike Sutton's Typhoon touches on the Typhoon's 27mm Mauser, how it was going to be deleted to save money but designing the ballast to replace it was perversely more expensive so they left it in. Technical issues with jamming still hadn't been solved when he used it in action in 2014, jamming after just 26 rounds during a strafing run over Iraq.
The problem is that guns are seen as lower priority back-up weapons and their integration and ironing out of mechanical faults takes a back seat when resources have to be channelled into other development areas. A cannon that jams in a relatively stable diving strafing attack is going to be useless in a high-G dogfight.
