The trouble with 0.50's is a lot to do with AI FM. When you get hit by them yourself, while rarely fatal in the first burst, they generally have sufficient effect to curtail effective manoeuvring of your plane.
However, the AI generally control their planes just as well even with quite extensive damage, which leads to the rather tedious process of chipping away at them until they fall out of the sky.
The only solutions to this are either to become an expert in one type of 0.50-armed plane so that you can pull off the kind of convergence/deflection shots that will get you a quick kill, or to switch to a cannon-armed plane, and not worry so much about expertise, as you can get first-burst-fatal shots in with less precise shooting.
I prefer to do the latter, and am therefore in the "0,50s are lame" camp.
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