most guns do rn
It’s a myth. If you lose tail controls (and not the tail), the airplane usually just indefinitely lifts/pitches up into oblivion until you stall or recover it by rolling or if you’re lucky using the rudder sideways.
Since air more or less just acts like a liquid, imagine the air that’s veery closely following the airframe getting sucked into the holes the bullets make, then very quickly filling the inside of the tail and ripping it apart from the speed and force that air has coming inside.
not as far as aircraft canons go
The game basically doesn’t care at all about caliber, angle of impact, or exactly where you hit (as if damaging the structural longerons and frames were the same as hitting an intermediate panel, or as if hitting a compartment with a larger cross-section - where overpressure dissipates - were no different from hitting a smaller one where it doesn’t). It’s just a literal arbitrary hitbox with a health bar that, once it hits 0 hp, causes the part to fall off.
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