My question is WHY is it easier to hit planes with tank rounds and their machine guns???
With the more modern tanks and the means of stabilising weapons it’s more acceptable, but with the older vehicles, the machine guns on the turrets didn’t have any controlled stability mechanism so they were fired in short busts with a variable spread, but here in war thunder the tank is better for accuracy than a vehicle designed for shooting down planes and now with the introduction of even more artillery type vehicles with the proximity rounds and their accuracy which in my opinion far exceeds its given purpose. The need to have an anti-aircraft vehicle in your line up is slowly but surely reducing so can you please reduce the accuracy of the tank machine guns for a better experience and the need to learn and use anti-aircraft vehicles.
Because the air force will expect a response from anti-aircraft guns, but not from tanks, so it treats tanks carelessly.
Mate, that’s because people are firing machine guns at planes when they are in closer proximity. Meaning it’s easier to hit a target. However Anti-Aircraft guns, struggle cause they are at a greater distance.
If you tried firing roof-mounted machine guns while they’re at a similar distance that SPAAGs often struggle at, you wouldn’t get any results. One more thing, most of Y’all don’t know how to use Anti-Air guns and fire strange rather than learning how to lead your shots. Something you would know if you learned how to fly Aircraft with cannons. Where leading your shots is necessary. Or find someone who knows how to use SPAAGs.
I get whats being said about how to use SPAAGs and using tank machine guns at close range, that’s obvious, if you want to run face first into the fire then you will get burnt, but the accuracy of the tank machine guns on the top of the turret is the issue here, when you elevate a turret based machine gun to shoot at planes the operator (machine gunner) is unable to use the sights as normal along with having to deal with the extra force of the machine guns recoil forcing the gun to fire higher so with that the direction of the rounds and the spread is greater, therefore making the gun less accurate the more you elevate the barrel, this is what I feel needs to be tweeked.