Why AA has ap ammo? Feels so stupid.
They have armor pricing belts to pierce armor
i understand if they can get bmps and that kinda tanks but mbt frontally, thats kinda stupid
Why?
Well I truly understand your frustration and annoyance, at low BR ratings the SPAA are quite possibly the most efficient anti tank vehicles, spewing an endless steam of god needles of death that shred through most if not all armour at that level, while at the same time being difficult to eliminate due to all the space between crew members and the poor realism of shells and the effects they have on crew morale and actual bodies.
Again realism or lack of it in the game, SPAA was obviously primarily for anti aircraft use with perhaps some use against troops and light skinned or very light armoured vehicles. Tungsten I believe was the core of a lot of the AP rounds, in short supply a critical war material needed in more critical areas than ammunition, most vehicles had one or two clips at the most not an endless supply.
Problem with the game is in order to make it playable a lot of realism has been removed, a lot of vehicles did not make into production because of serious flaws but in Warthunder the flaws are dismissed and you have vehicles/planes/ships which perform far more outstanding then they ever would in the real world.
“self defense”
And also because AP shells had a purpose in SPAA work but now all explosive shells can just rip planes in half with no issues, So AP was just kind of left with small anti tank role.
In case of the 35 mm automatic cannon Type KDA;
To increase the effect against armoured parts/such that HEI cannot perforate, of aircraft (think of engines or the A-10’s tub for example), aswell as allowing them to engange certain armoured ground targets without having to expend the limited amount of auxiliary sub-calibre ammunition.
Sorry for the poor quality, I only have a physical copy of the german version and I cannot be bothered to translate that rn.
PLD-044, DM 13/DM 13 A1 (same as DM 13 but diff. primer)
ballistically identical to MSD-042 HEI (DM 11 A1)
It did also have better effect at higher depth of penetration compared to the Mine-HEI shells (MSD).
Later on, new base-fuzed HEI shells were developed, which were better against aircraft and still retained the capability of dealing with armoured targets up to, and including, IFV’s (examples: SSD 048, SSD 052, DM 31 HE-MP-T)