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Originally Posted by IceFire
I'd like to see some tracks of you shooting that much in an enemy aircraft and it not going down.
That said... there are many stories from WWII that support the notion that light calibre machine guns were insufficient to bring down the better constructed and better armored aircraft. Here's one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Johnson
Exceptional but not entirely unheard of.
The Buffalo Mark I which I presume you were flying against was one of the better protected Buffalo models (also one of the heaviest) and in general it was fairly well constructed. I'm not surprised that it would take a significant number of bullets to bring down. Particularly if the shooter were engaging from dead 6 and firing into the fuselage instead of aiming for the engine or wing roots where the more vulnerable components are.
What does shortchange the lighter calibres are some of the smaller finely detailed damage model components. The kind of thing they did right away with Cliffs of Dover but just weren't part of the original IL-2.
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Yeah I heard the story of that P-47 pilot, I think I'm aiming at the wrongs spots then.