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Engine gun
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An engine gun, or engine cannon (from German: Motorkanone, "motor cannon"), is an aircraft gun mounted behind and through the cylinder block of an inline aircraft engine (most often a V engine) with a reduction drive that displaces the propeller axle to be in line with the gun so that gunfire is allowed through the propeller hub. This allows for nose-mounted weaponry on aircraft without the need for synchronization gear while also permitting higher calibers for nose-mounted weaponry, which otherwise would be hard to adapt for synchronization gear.[1]
The first time this was done was during World War I when the French modified the Hispano-Suiza 8 engine to be able to install a 37 mm autocannon.[2] The concept was used widely before the Jet Age.
Historical engine guns
[edit]Finnish guns
[edit]- 12.7 mm VKT 12,70 LKk/42 (single use on a Morane-Saulnier MS.406)
French guns
[edit]- 7.5 mm MAC 1934
- 20 mm Hispano-Suiza HS.404
- 37 mm SAMC (Semi Automatique Moteur Canon)
German guns
[edit]- 7.9 mm MG 17 machine gun
- 20 mm MG 151 cannon
- 30 mm MK 103 cannon
- 30 mm MK 108 cannon
Soviet guns
[edit]- 12.7 mm Berezin UB
- 20 mm Berezin B-20
- 20 mm ShVAK cannon
- 23 mm Nudelman-Suranov NS-23
- 37 mm Nudelman-Suranov NS-37
- 37 mm Nudelman N-37
- 45 mm Nudelman-Suranov NS-45
Swiss guns
[edit]- 20 mm Oerlikon FF
Engine gun installations
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French engines
[edit]- Hispano-Suiza 8 (various models)
- Hispano-Suiza 12Y
German engines
[edit]Soviet engines
[edit]Swiss engines
[edit]Aircraft with engine guns
[edit]Czechoslovak aircraft
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Finnish aircraft
[edit]French aircraft
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- Dewoitine D.500
- Dewoitine D.520
- Loire-Nieuport LN.401
- Morane-Saulnier M.S.405
- Morane-Saulnier M.S.406
- Morane-Saulnier M.S.410
- Morane-Saulnier M.S.411
- Morane-Saulnier M.S.412
- Morane-Saulnier M.S.450
- SPAD S.XII
German aircraft
[edit]- Blohm & Voss BV 155
- Dornier Do 335
- Heinkel He 100
- Heinkel He 112 ("kanonenvogel")
- Messerschmitt Bf 109
Italian aircraft
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Soviet aircraft
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Swedish aircraft
[edit]Swiss aircraft
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Yugoslavian aircraft
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "PART V AUTOMATIC AIRCRAFT CANNON". ibiblio.org. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
- ^ Thorsson, Nils (1975). Historik och kartläggning av vapenmateriel för flygplan. Arboga, Sweden. p. 25.
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