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LordsFire has established that dragon crews must use long guns, otherwise Rhi would just be able to use pistols and there'd be no drama about her small size keeping her from flying combat. Anything Naomi Novak writes that implies that the combat range is short enough for pistols has already...

Bombs can be used, but they're mostly used for completely different things. Bombs are probably pretty good against fortifications and the structure of ships, but can not be used in air to air combat at all. Rifles are basically useless against fortifications, but can probably have some effect...

An air force is not an army. Wellington had over a hundred thousand men at Waterloo. I do not get the impression the Brits have more than a few thousand dragons, and maybe down in the hundreds. There's very little point to putting someone on a dragon beyond the officer who directs it without...

Maximizing bullets per minute per marksman trumps bullets per minute per pound (the currency) when you have a limited number of dragons with limited capacity for marksmen. Fergusons should probably be the air service rifle if no other breech loaders have come along yet to fill the demand.