Yeah that was first thing I looked at with those rotors coming down where there interfere with any waist door gunner’s field of fire when in forward flight. In Hover it may be a non issue.......
Ramp gun can make do fine w/ a M134 or Ma Deuce can get it done for hot LZ cover fire on extraction .......Waist guns can have a cutoff / block for when rotors transition to forward flight mode etc.......???
Wait and see....:o)
I actually heard (prolly BS) that the USMC didn’t want a chin gun, because they don’t want pilots going Rambo and getting into slugfests above hot LZs. The Osprey is too expensive, and we can’t use them like VN Hueys (5,000 lost!!!!!!). They should drop their troops off a brisk hike to the fighting. No chin gun will help convince pilots to stay back.....or so that theory went.