Currently, Mk103 only has 2 belts for ground targets; however, the armored targets’ belts are pure APCR rounds, so the shell is pretty hard to break and does nothing, and the stealth belt is pretty hard to aim, the only APHE belts are for the air target, but the SAP’s performance is also pretty bad, considering MK103 ground targets belts cost is pretty high even close to 45 APHE and most of aircrafts are heavy, it should get SP redcution in GRB or have new real APHE belts
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The stealth belts should be good enough. 58 pen on a aircraft gun is very good, especially how it is api, and ground targets dont have lead to calculate, so no tracers should be fine after you get used to it
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It is still pretty hard to kill some tanks with spacious area, unless you hit the its ammo, and also it is pretty hard against SPAAs
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Nah, I think the Mk103 Stealth Belt (AP-I) has good ballistics and is easy to hit with. If there’s a problem with the Mk103 Ammunition Belts, it’s that the HVAP-T for Armored targets is completely useless, and that SAPHE-T is only included in the Default Belt and Air Targets Belt. There are two ways to improve this. The first is to add an AP-I/SAPHE-T belt as a 2nd Armored Belt. The second is to modify the SAPHE-T into a historically accurate APHE-T with 58 mm penetration.
For reference, I’m posting a video showing the current effectiveness of the Stealth Belt’s AP-I.
Also… a less ideal buff would be more AP-I fragments. Hard to balance though. A small boost would still be nice.
Fw 190 F-8 Gun Pod
Do 335 B-3
The question is, how many times do you have in a GRB battle to attack and how many ammo do you have? Except for DO335b, most of the MK103 carriers only have 1-2 times then are shot down by SPAA or the enemy fighters, FW190F only has 70 rounds, which allows you to attack like 2-3 times, and don’t forget the test drive targets are taking full ammo. Most of MK103 carriers need low-cost SP to CAS instead of spending over 600 SP on such efficient ammo belts
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