Reply #32: I was a door gunner on a gunship in Vietnam [View All]

[Bandit]

We worked only with Special Forces and small four or five man teams and it was imperative that our support be within a few meters of the men on the ground. To be able to provide such close suppression I used solid tracer rounds instead of the normal four ball and one tracer. We could suppress within a couple of feet of the men on the ground while flying at eighty miles an hour...So I would say with experience behind me that machine guns can be extremely accurate.