So what im talking about are the differents belts for each 12.7mm mgs in the american planes and how the variety of belt configurations change and I got lost about why some planes get these and others do not. This came to me while playing the P-63 family and missing my full API-T belts from my P-51D-5 even while they are at the same BR.
I know BR or Rank does not play a role here since the P-51C and F6F-5FN have different belts, neither does plane family since the P-38s get full M20 APIT belts on later variants and date so far I think also doesn’t affect putting again the P-51C and the F6F-5FN as examples, I think…
do you guys have any ideas what determines the belts? Because im kind of curious
I believe that it is the time of usage of the plane as ive heard people refer to them as early war, late war, and post war belts
5 Likes
I prefer calling them early-, mid-, and late-war belts, but same deal. Apart from the three American variants there’s also the British M2 that is roughly analogous to the the mid-war American M2; I assume that’s because the British didn’t buy the M20 API-T. The turret M2s are also split into mid- and late-war versions.
There’s a nice article on the old wiki that goes into detail about the differences between the M2 variants: M2 Browning (12.7 mm) - War Thunder Wiki. However, I think its comment on late-war M2s having a higher rate of fire is incorrect (at least now); all M2s (obviously excluding the M3) fire at 750 rpm.