I tend to keep track of stats pretty much. Average hits with a Ho-5 to immediately bring down a late war US fighter: 40. P-47 may soak up twice as much and still be flyable, I've had bombers return to base after being hit 200 times. The MG151 rounds on average pack about 2.6 times the explosive punch of the Ho-5 rounds. Interestingly, the power is fairly much spot on when considering the explosive loads of the rounds, where the MG151 on average packs more due to the mine shell, but the incendiary contents of the Ho-5 rounds is being completely ignored. The Japanese used a combo round, where in addition to the 3.4g HE there also were 3.7g incendiary components, and these are being ignored. As is the HET round, which used 3.2g HE with 8.7g incendiaries, for a really big flash upon impact. In game is shoots about accurately modelled AP rounds and some dumbed down HE and IT rounds. It's got a pretty decent rate of fire, though. Still, on average it should probably hit about nearly twice as hard.
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