M24A1 (20 mm)

Description

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Vehicles equipped with this weapon

• ◄F-86K
• ▄F-86K (Italy)
• ▄F-86K (France)
• F-89B

General info

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Available ammunition

• Default: AP-T · HEF-I · HEF-I
• Universal: AP-T · HEF-I · I
• Air targets: HEF-I · HEF-I · I · AP-T
• Armored targets: AP-T · AP-I · AP-I · AP-I
• Stealth: HEF-I · AP-I · HEF-I · I

Penetration statistics
Belt	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
	10 m	100 m	500 m	1,000 m	1,500 m	2,000 m
Default	36	33	23	15	9	6
Universal	36	33	23	15	9	6
Air targets	36	33	23	15	9	6
Armored targets	36	33	23	15	9	6
Stealth	36	33	22	14	9	5

Comparison with analogues

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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History

During World War II, the French Hispano-Suiza Hs.404 became the standard Allied aircraft cannon. However, these nations were not idle during the war and worked to improve this design. In the United States, the Ordnance Department’s attempt to make an improved shorter version of their licensed-built AN/M2 cannons spawned the T31 and later the M3 which had reliability issues. When the reliability issues that plagued the American variants of the Hispano-Suiza continued so the newly independent United States Air Force would adopt a variant after World War II called the M24. In an attempt to improve reliability, the M24 uses an electric firing mechanism that allows for re-cocking of a lightly struck round. The M24 would be one of the replacements M2 and M3 Browning machine guns in aircraft use. It primarily served as the turret armament of post-war bombers starting with the B-36 Peacemaker, Boeing B-47 Stratojet, and B-66 Destroyer. Fighters would mostly find their machine guns replaced with the FFAR Mighty Mouserockets under the belief that the Jet Age made cannon armaments obsolete for interceptors due to insufficient range. However, a small number of aircraft variants such as F-86K Sabre and F-89B Scorpion. The M24A1 variant differs from the standard M24 through the bolt retainers for holding the shell casing, breech block side plate contacts for alternative synchronization methods, a new breech block with heat-treating and a changed angle, a flat spring on the firing pin contact for better contact, a reduced diameter breech block slide coil spring and spring guide, a new locking system for the gas cylinder, a two-part guide-spring, a new design and heat treating for barrel and breech block locking key, a large cotter pin for the magazine, a modified gas tube to accommodate the new contact plates, and a short slot to house the new breech block contact. The service life of the M24 was short-lived. The United States captured data on the German Mauser MG 213 revolver auto-cannon which was used as the basis of the FMC T-160 tested during the Korean War and later the M39 revolving cannon adopted in 1952. The M39 would replace the M24 in Air Force service.

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See also

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