[Red Badger]

I thought our aircraft had Gatling guns?.............Obsolete tech?...............

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Former F-14 pilot Ward Carroll gives his take here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2xz21HvLs8&t=320s

Guns are good out to 1,000 feet, AIM-9X a couple miles. Probably too dangerous to point the plane directly at something that big, shoot it, and then try to avoid hitting it, or debris.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Even flying at 100 kt, at 1000 feet you have less than six seconds to turn and avoid hitting a very large it. In a tail chase, where the target is moving almost as fast as the pursuer, not a consideration.

[Elsie]

I thought our aircraft had Gatling guns?

Not ALL of them!