One excellent tactic is aiming for the wings or engines, but most importantly, pilots. However, early bombers will brush off these bullets easily, you may empty your entire ammo stowage before destroying a single bomber. The opponents you will face with these guns are almost always unarmoured biplanes or early monoplanes. These guns rely less on getting shots in but rather on chipping away at the most vital parts of the plane. These guns suffer from stock belts, however no other belt option has too much of a difference. MG 15/ 17/ 81: Better firepower, belts, rate of fire, and performance.Browning/ Swedish Browning: Better firepower, however it is quick to jam.MAC 1934: Bad firepower compared to the Type 97's, but excellent rate of fire.The American Browning jams very quickly, so keep that in mind, as you are still superior to other nations in terms of the rifle-calibre machine guns.

German rifle-calibres will always outperform it and often set fires, while British machine guns are very similar in performance. Not many weapons rival the poor firepower of this gun, but some reserve machine guns like the Mle 33 or MAC 1934 are worse. Stealth won't often light fires, but its AP rounds will get to work and sooner or later hit the pilot or snap off a wing. Stealth is a great choice because your enemy won't see you coming and have the most damage potential, and these guns are always mounted in the nose and are easy to aim. However, the total damage output of these guns is rather low, and you'll have to deal with poor belts and lacklustre rounds. These guns have a lower rate of fire than other rifle-calibre machine guns making them very suitable for synchronization, have decent ballistics, and have low jamming probability when upgraded. 303 (7.7 mm) and are not interchangeable. The Navy Type 97 aircraft machine gun is the IJN's standard issue machine gun, similar to Army Type 89 machine gun, being a licensed copy of the Vickers E machine gun, but unlike the Army machine gun which got rechambered in Japanese. Vehicles equipped with this weapon Vehicles equipped with this weapon This weapon was not related to the Type 97 heavy tank machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army. The Type 97 aircraft machine gun was the standard fixed light machine gun on aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

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