Of course there was.
On the eastern front the fighting took place all the time on the front lines.
So you’re constantly near or above friendly units.
Unless there’s a belt for attacking ground targets, Mineshells should have a SD fuze.
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Ok, but is that reflected in game?
No.
Do other nations care?
No.
Switxhing Germany to SD fuse simply ruins the ability to fire long range in a head on. It serves no other in-game purpose as NO SANE MAN would choose SD over normal shells for combat as shown in WT.
Also the chance of hitting troops is miniscule compared to a chance to hit a town or city you’re dogfighting above, hence the need for self destruct shell grows exponentialy when defending your own territory.
It wouldn’t, if it wasn’t bugged.
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How is it bugged then? MK108 has the same issue, where we get self.destruct shells in the (by far) the best belt because every other one has a shell that’s lower in power than Shvak’s single FI-T for whatever reason and that includes the HEF shell.
Here L.Dv.4000/10 Abschnitt C Punkt 7.
“He Rounds of the heavy Guns are not allowed to cause damage on the ground, if they miss the target.
Solution: Self Destruct (…)
Excluded: For Ground attack from greater heights (…)”
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The main issue is that the self-destruct is bugged:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/dvxLt7m0iE7k
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So essentialy it can be used just fine, since there are no friendly forces to be hurt ever present in WT and also MG151/20 shells magically disappear after 1600m (it’s 2500 in the file but I’ve never managed to score a single hit beyond 1600 even in a vertical dive upon the truck in test flight).
I love how we’re using “the right ammo for air combat”, only it’s not the right ammo for the conditions in game.
Remember, this is a game where you can literally take off for a combat mission in a propeller driven aircraft with fuel for 13m of flight (which any WW2 pilot would probably call “suicidial”) so the “realism” argument has no power here.
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I refuse to believe any intelligent human being capable of predicting the basic consequences of his choices would code it like that, hence I refuse to believe in existence of this bug, as qualified Gaijin staff would have never made such a ridiculous mistake.
Looks like you had a rough day.
NP - i am not your enemy. You might consider rephrasing your statement regarding “lowest effort research” and everything is fine.
I read this years ago, but with 3 minutes of research i found this (auto-translated) statement:
Dismantlers make no more sense than with fighter planes except for anti-aircraft guns . . . according to Schliephake, the MG151/20 fired almost exclusively ammunition with dismantling, especially the mine grenades and incendiary grenades.
Regarding the 4 seconds, Tony Williams wrote to me that before April 1941 1.7 seconds (750m) of zder were used, 3 seconds (1100m) from that date.
This refers to the book: Flugzeugbewaffnung: Die Bordwaffen der Luftwaffe von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart Hanfried Schliephake - i found this statement here, auto-translation works fine.
I also refused to belive that the first shell in the a belt determines the muzzle velocity of all shells in the belt, but here we are:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/yzhY4EoYdQqM
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This follows the path of XDDDDD ideology. Since I don’t and can’t criticise Gaijin staff, I have to assume this is intentional, to prepare WT players for the real adult life where the world seems to laugh at your suffering. That’s a valuable lesson.
I added your bug report to my post regarding BR changes:
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