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Originally Posted by 1984
and, by the way, just about shells for guns... hispano - 20x110, HE-shell - 130 g in total, around 10 g of explosives... right? well, of course, better than shvak what personally i and see in game...
VYA-23 - 23x152, HE-shell - 201/15.6 - ie more explosives, almost like in minengeschoss if 18 g it's correctly, more weight ie more fragments which can damage pilot/fuel etc (it's fragment with weight around 5 g) and could be more fragments which can damage design of plane (it's fragment with weight around 20 g)...
well, and personally i can't say what vya really better than hispano... or difference very little (like and with shvak vs hispano)... or i'm mistaken.... |
The Hispano is very effective in-game and is probably tied for first with the MG151/20 for most destructive 20mm cannon... but the VYa 23mm is in a league of it's own. We have to restrict it from the loadouts on LaGG-3s for some online matches because a couple of 23mm VYa rounds will devastate a bomber utterly. The fire rate and muzzle velocity are lower than the Hispano but the sheer destructive power is incredible. Anecdotally with the VYa we see effects like engines being shot off, planes loosing both wings, or aircraft being thrown around (and sometimes into a stall situation). I'd say it is definitely more powerful than any of the 20mm.
Plus for tank busting the 23mm is noticeably more capable on rear armor decks on light and some medium tanks than the smaller 20mm cannons.