They don’t oneshot everything. They SOMETIMES oneshot people, most of the time you’ll do good damage but their wings are still attached. Hispanos and AN/M2s will just nuke you with their powerful HEI and SAP-I shells. ShVAKs have much higher RoF and can simply put more shots into the enemy.
Hispano HEI (600rpm)
Hispano SAP-I (600rpm)
AN/M2 HEF-I (600 rpm)
Type 99-2 HEF (490rpm)
Type 99-1 HEF (516rpm)
ShVAK FI-T (800rpm)
MG151/20 HEI - damage looks good but ballistics are HORRIBLE and it has about as much range as the short barreled Type 99-1s (700rpm)
I’ve been on break for like half a year and I just got into WT last month, and I can definitely feels Type 99 hitting still as hard as it was 1 year ago. idk maybe its just me but i feel like this gun really oveperform because out of all guns this is the one that consistently one tap for me.
Then IDK, aim better I suppose. They do less damage, have less range and velocity, and have lower RPM than any cannon listed here.
The Type 99-1s are literally copies of the Oerlikon FF which you will find on low tier 109s, the Type 99-2 simply extends the barrel for higher velocity.
Aim better? idk about you but even a burst of 4 hispano doesn’t hit as hard as Type 99. Genuinely I don’t need to aim to make type 99 work, I just need it to hit once. and it has been like that since about 1 year ago.
Most of the 20mm Type 99 gun ammo belt is primarily composed of HEF, with tracers containing 100% HEF-T
The Hispanos belt almost always tries to squeeze in the the questionable SAP-I shell, even for air targets. So for snap shots theres a good chance of the shell doing the hitting is the SAP or tracer shell which do almost no damage when hitting a target.
That most likely explain why the Type 99 ‘hits’ harder for you, you’re almost always shooting the optimum shell for demolishing air targets.
There’s a lot of slander against US mains ITT so I need to say:
I played China air on release before Air RB became slop, most games were USSR+CN vs Japan on Zhengzhou and Yak-3s and La-7s were just as happy as P-47/51 pilots to start turnfighting Zeroes.
I was there when German pilots fought Japanese pilots for the first time in air RB. 109s and 190s werehappily dogfighting themselves against zeros and suddenly the superior German pilot was nothing more than a myth.
HEF-T actually does less damage than HEF, so on Type 99-equipped planes you’re better off with Universal since it has more HEF. The APHE shell will usually fuse on aircraft skin and deal more damage than either HE shell.
