Aircraft Ammunition Velocities - Where to find?

Good time of day all,

I’ve been having a hard time finding shell velocities for aircraft cannon and machine gun ammunition.

I’ve checked the wiki to no avail and I’ve seen a few velocities on aircraft belts that only have a single ammo type.

Has anyone made a resource, or is there a table somewhere?

Kind Regards,

Lukav

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There is this:

https://wiki.warthunder.com/index.php?title=Category:Ammunition_tables

It’s a bit hefty as it’s all the guns in War Thunder (air, tank, ground), but it’s oganised by the gun type/model. In the link then is the info for all the rounds it can take in the various belts.

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This is very helpful. If I get around to making a table I’ll be sure to post it.

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Have in mind that the muzzle velocity in mixed belts is determined by the first shell in the belt - that means that even if other ammo types have a higher velocity: If your first round is the “slowest” all other projectiles will have this “slow” speed…

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I’m not sure what you mean by that.

Are you suggesting that ammo in belts are tuned to have the same muzzle velocity as the slowest ammo type?

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Not the slowest - the first shell determines the speed of all shells in the belt.

It’s common knowledge - you find this even in yt tutorials…

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I’m just clarifying what you said

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If this is helpful, you can use prot anal to see the velocities of the individual bullets/shells your plane uses.
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LEGEND! I didn’t even think of that!. This will be very helpful going forward also. Thank you!

This applies to any vehicle, btw