Like seriously why? I’ve had instances of shooting planes and helicopters with 120mm APFSDS and only got a hit but if you touch the tip of a tree branch with the tip of your wing at even 100 km/h the entire wing is gone.
This is fucking ridiculous how unrealistic trees and bushes are modeled in this game.
There are numerous instances of planes and helicopters hitting trees or crash landing on a bunch of them and not a single one caused the plane to spontaneously combust but in War Thunder, trees are made out of some unknown alien material that are harder than the material used to make planes which brings up the question “why didn’t we make planes out of the same material as these trees instead?”
They are?
They certainly appear to be in War Thunder with the way how even a plane made out of titanium fucking explodes when it touches a tree.
planes have issues with trees not bcs they are strong but bcs they are too tall.
about touching them - maybe the engine won’t be happy
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True as well. Trees in War Thunder are way higher than trees should be in their real life spot.
And Gaijin apparently doesn’t know the higher on the tree, the weaker it becomes so hitting the top of a tree shouldn’t have the same effect as a 155mm HE shell on your plane.
And I think the engines can handle a little bit of leaf as one of the tests done to engines is throwing whole chickens in it to see if the engine can handle it or not.