And about those Ace gunners . . .
Head shot against the pilot of a maneuvering Me-262 traveling at nearly 650 kph, at over 350 m range, at the extreme edge of the Wellington's front turret arc of fire, at what had to be at least 60 degrees of deflection when the gunner began to track me, and which was still 20 degrees or so of deflection at the time of the hit. Screenshot was taken a second or so after the kill; I was slightly climbing and banking at the time.
Realistically, I'm not even sure that the Wellington's turrets can track that fast, nor would the gunner have much chance to acquire his target and aim against such a fast-moving and distant target.
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachm...1&d=1403857587
That's the sort of accuracy that aerial gunners could only dream about during WW2, but in the skies of IL2, it happens every day.
At least the damage modeling was good this time - the bullet just missed the armor glass behind the pilot's head.