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Originally Posted by falconilia
If you fly historical air battles you dont have to worry about 0.50 caliber bullets but for lots of 20mms and some 13mm calliber
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Valid points, but one step at a time.
Future tests will determine vulnerability to side and rear attacks, as well as vulnerability to .30 caliber & 20 mm fire.
But, I'm limited by the selection of flexible guns mounted in flyable aircraft. Pe-8 for SHVAK, G4M for Type 99/Oerlikon FF 20 mm.
If anyone can recommend a flyable aircraft with twin .30/.303 caliber or 7.62mm flexible guns in a rear turret, I'd be grateful.
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Originally Posted by falconilia
So to minimize your results maybe you should test only vs Axis planes.
You will save time and strength!  |
I chose .50 caliber as the mid-point in terms of weight of fire, and because the original focus of my test was determining if the FW-190's wing could be broken & its engine set on fire using that caliber of gun.
I might be making a mistake, but I also think that IL2 has "damage thresholds" required to damage certain aircraft parts. I'm guessing that the "damage threshold" classes are .30/.303 caliber & 7.62 mm, .50 caliber/12.7/13 mm, 20 mm & 30 mm. But, they might also be as simple as MG vs. cannon.
In any case, I'm assuming that any plane part which can be broken with .50 caliber/12.7 mm can be broken with rifle caliber MG, and that any part that can't be broken using .50 caliber/12.7mm can be broken using 20mm fire. I'm probably wrong, but further testing will tell.