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Originally Posted by gaunt1
Impossible with ordinary guns. Thats almost as powerful as a GAU-8 Avenger! The weapon you are referring to is a 28/20mm squeezebore gun, with very special ammunition.
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I agree. A good general rule of thumb is that a WW2 era gun will penetrate mm of armor equal to its mm of bore at 100 m.
My point was that some types of 20 mm ammo could hypothetically penetrate the top armor of a PzKw or even a Tiger if fired at very close range at just the right angle. But, I think it's quite unlikely and would require a very aggressive, very skilled on-line pilot.
More likely, I think that the armor values for certain late war AFV are crocked, or IL2 overstates penetrating ability of 20mm guns vs. armor, or both.