“The USSR received 1,232,991 rounds of Shell, 37mm, fixed, High Explosive, AC (aircraft) through Lend - Lease shipments during the war and no type - M80 armor - piercing rounds. This same source indicates that all of the 65,380 type - M80 armor - piercing rounds shipped via Lend - Lease went to Great Britain. See Lend - Lease Shipments, World War II, U. S. War Department, 31 December 1946, Section IV…”
It’s been reported and acknowledged multiple times, however it is yet to be corrected.
Where’s is your supporting evidence that it’s not a bug?
Especially since you don’t have belts to choose from but are stuck with default. Makes no sense.
There’s not a single aircraft cannon other than the Soviet P-39 and P-63 where you can’t choose ammo belts when there’s at least two types of rounds available.
But it’s kinda the same with the Romanian Hs 129. They never received any cannon pods so it shouldn’ have the option for MK 103s and the BK 3.7.
Of course Gaijin made them into copy & paste premiums so wacha gonna do?
It’s basically all what if.
But that still doesn’t make any sense to not give a plane the option to at least select it’s historical ammo load-out.
It’s the same with Italian vehicle getting only 20mm APCR mixed with AP instead of having the same as German vehicles.
It’s all very poor attempts by Gaijin to create what they think is balanced.
Like how they nerfed the Ho 229s MK 103s into the ground and changed the ammo belts for HVAP instead of just removing HVAP belts for the plane.
As if a flying UFO intended to be a bomber needed HVAP rounds for attacking tanks…
It wouldn’t be a problem, if AP wasn’t underperforming as much as it did.
AP should be a lot more devasting then people think against planes.
It’s funny but 37mm AP doesn’t even create armor spalling when fired against armor plates in planes, but it does against ground armor.
There’s also no energy transfer.
If your 37mm AP hits a 20mm cannon, it just destroys the gun, which doesn’t even have an effect in the game. But in reality it would just rip out the gun from it’s mount, severaly damaging the wing in the process.
Then again, while playing around with a P-39 against AI B-17s a 1.0s burst with 2x.50als and 4x.30cals was enough to shoot off a B-17s wing tips.
Compared to 37mm AP that wouldn’t even destroy the vertical stabilizer after 2-3 direct hits.
In WT many angry bees can just destroy wing spars due to the accumulating damage over a wide area.
While 37mm AP will take out an engine in a single shot, it does practically nothing against fuel tanks.
While 37mm HE can sever a B-17s wing or tail in a single shot.