I also think that reality is different from the game in that in reality you shoot at very short range (around 50 meters) while in the game you shoot at 400 meters or more. I also imagine that it’s because of what you say about seeing enemy planes right away, but of course, at 50 meters the AP bullets would have a large part of their energy, so they would penetrate the plane’s armor better.
It wouldn’t be possible to damage the wing spars, would it? Another thing I’m thinking about is, is it implemented in the game that if you damage wing spars and then the plane makes a sharp turn or a steep dive, will the spar eventually break due to the stress?
50m is awfully close but yeah, 100-150m is a good range to get hits and not just spraying rounds all over the place.
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Unliked from a deflection shot.
The target is very small. It could happen but most likely your dealing the most damage to spars with AP rounds from behind.
Particular unstable rounds that tumble and slash big holes into it instead of making caliber sized holes, which wouldn’t have much of an effect.
Similarly they can slash open the wing surface, which also would be structurally fatal.
But spars and wing structure are generally bad targets since you need to get pretty lucky and have to hit many times to get an effect.
Like by putting your Spitfire or Hurricane convergence at 150m to have even have a chance to cause some damage with LMG bullets.
Realistically most guns should also be a lot less accurate than what we have in the game.
If a plane doesn’t have pilot armor having them at 400m would perfectly adequate with the number of rounds fired.
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Gotta love mods:
TNSh != ShVAK
Moreover, even ShVAK has different modifications. The wing, turret, and motor cannon have different barrel lengths and different ballistics, and you’re comparing them to the tank version, which is essentially a new cannon.
Yeah except for the part where it literally says „ShVAK“ in the manual.
And then he pulls out some cope about different barrel lengths and ballistics which has no meaning when the it’s the same shell at the same velocity.
The ballistics are for the shell and have nothing to do with the gun.
But hey thats WT moderators.
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You have 12 missed calls by Marseille…😂
|3 Jun 1942|Hans-Joachim Marseille engaged in the longest single aerial battle of his career over Bir Hacheim, Libya, shooting down six P-40 fighters (at 1222 hours, 1225 hours, 1227 hours, 1228 hours, 1229 hours, and 1233 hours), pushing his score up to 75. He used up only 12 cannon rounds and about 360 machine gun rounds in this fight.|
Was a full downtier in a 109 F-4…
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More than impressive. But is that confirmed?
Shooting merely 12 cannon rounds by engaging and shooting down six aircraft sounds honestly harder than shooting down 6 P-40s.
Unless he in some instances didn‘t even fire his cannon.
And Lvl. 100 vs. Lvl. 8 pilots 😄
You find these low ammo usage quite often in diaries / memoirs / biographies. The ground crews were instructed to determine the actual ammo usage.
I just pulled this example to show you that Marseille invented “one-tapping” - and that wt and their game mechanic called mouse aim allows you to perform similarly to top aces - and wt allows you 5 kills with 120 20 mm rounds.
Not sure about that - the DAF (Desert Air Force) had a lot of colonial pilots which were like the Brits well trained - and had always a massive number advantage. The Brits and their commonwealth pilots were assessed as equally skilled - and Marseille is mainly famous for attacking alone large groups of enemies AND for shooting down 3 enemy aces in a single fight - this was the same fight with the 12 cannon rounds:
His attack method to break up formations, which he perfected, resulted in a high proportion of victories, and in rapid, multiple victories per attack. On 3 June 1942, Marseille attacked a formation of 16 Curtiss P-40 fighters and shot down six aircraft of No. 5 Squadron SAAF, five of them in six minutes, including three aces: Robin Pare (six victories), Cecil Golding (6.5 victories) and Andre Botha (five victories); the latter crash-landed his damaged fighter.
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Good progress being made towards ending the fake Russian supremacy in Warthunder
Because a FI-T round with 6.36g of TNT equivalent should be dealing the same damage as 20mil with more than double doesn’t it?
While recieving a belt entirely made of said rounds while the other 20mils have crap shoved in their belts
Not that easy to find.
I know that German pilots made some after battle report describing how they shot down a plane and what amount of ammunition was spent.
But I haven’t seen all that many of those.
If you get on a six from close range, you can certainly kill a plane with 1-2 20mm rounds hitting their mark.
Or by putting some machine gun rounds into engine and pilot from the right angle.
I’m reading a book about the Bf 109, and it mentions several cases of pilots who shot down multiple aircraft in just a few minutes, firing at close range (40-50 meters) and even causing collisions with the wreckage of the downed planes. It also mentions combat against the DAF (Desert Air Force), and how initially the Germans shot down quite a few aircraft, with German aces commonly taking down two or three enemy planes in two minutes. It’s worth noting that the DAF initially used primarily the Hurricane, later adopting the Spitfire and Kittyhawk, but above all, the DAF pilots used outdated combat tactics, making them vulnerable, until they finally adopted German tactics.
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