Talk:Equipment/@comment-24135506-20140311111721/@comment-119.56.123.229-20140314085926

If I were to hazard a guess, the machine gun animations shoot down only the planes targeting the ship firing the machine guns, or for planes in general if none of the enemy planes are attacking said ship. The sliding forward mechanism, which I found that all my ships equipped with Sanshikis do, appear to shoot down enemy planes even before they reach your fleet, regardless of whether they're going to attack the ship sliding forward or not.