RAF Technicians Examined a Bf 110 Rear-Gun Mount — And Found Why the Feed Jammed
Автор: WW2 Tactical Tales
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February 1943. RAF technicians examine a captured Bf 110 rear gun mount at Farnborough. The ammunition belt is jammed solid—exactly like 34% of other captured mounts. Under the microscope, the feed pawls reveal their deadly secret: oversized grain structure, wrong hardness, systematic manufacturing failures. German crews complained their defensive guns worked perfectly on the ground, then jammed the instant they needed them most—under fighter attack at 6,000 metres. The investigation uncovered a cascade of wartime production failures: rushed heat treatment, inadequate quality control, forced labour sabotage, and bureaucrats who chose production quotas over crew survival. Every jammed belt represented a death sentence for aircrew whose guns wouldn't fire when Spitfires closed from astern. The metallurgical evidence told the whole story: steel that never received proper heat treatment, components that fractured under combat stress, and systematic betrayal of the men who depended on this equipment to survive. This is how engineering failures kill, and how one RAF officer's meticulous analysis helped prevent future tragedies.
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