The destructive power of Russian guns/cannons

[IceFire]

Which Wiki did that come from? Could you provide the link? Did it have any information on Japanese cannons?

I believe the MG151/20 in-game is modeled with all of those ammo types. If you do detailed testing you can note the individual types of impacts on aircraft with the API, HE, and Mine shells as they all have individual impact effects.

I ask about the Japanese cannons because if anything is going to get a makeover it's the lack of properly modeled Japanese guns. When Japanese planes were first put into IL-2 they added the closest equivalents...sometimes with slight modifications. So the Zero has, for a long time, been using the same MG-FF/M that the Bf109E uses. In real life the Type 99-1 and Type 99-2 (depending on model of Zero) is a related but different cannon. The same applies to the machine guns and turret mounted machine guns and cannons.

There are some Japanese cannons in-game but I'm not sure if they are modeled correctly either. The Ho-103 and Ho-5 are modeled for example but I'm not sure if the belting is correct. What is accurate is the German machine gun and cannon use in the Ki-61-Hei (MG151/20 imported cannons) and the turret gunner on the Ki-45 (flex mount was a German MG). For some strange reason the Ki-43-I uses the Ho-103 but the Ki-43-II uses a Browning .50cal with yellow tracers. It's weird