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This simple program calculates a rough stimation of the effectiveness of the guns installed on a given fighter aircraft.
The calculation is made by taking into account the most fundamental aspects of a gun created with the purpose of destroying or damaging aircraft of any size. The program accepts up to eight gunfire batteries to be calculated, thus allowing complex layouts to be calculated. Values for Battery #1 are required, the rest are optional.
Below there is a list showing the values for many well-known historical fighter aircraft, including some heavy ones. Note that heavy and normal fighters belong to different leagues and should not be compared the ones with the others, but only among their peers. The higher the number, the higher the gun firepower installed in that aircraft.
Instant firepower accounts for how much damage the aircraft can deliver in a given moment, while logistic firepower accounts for how much ammunition the aircraft has available for each different caliber; the higher the caliber, the higher the ammunition scores for a given amount. Dates can correspond to commisionning or be posterior.

From http://militaryhistory.x10.mx