Testing the Corsair II and III DM
These aren't as bad as the Corsair I. The engines are equivalent to the Hellcat and P-47 in their ability to take damage before dying. The machine guns aren't as vulnerable to being knocked out by any random .303 hit. Armor glass works like it's supposed to. It's harder to trigger a minor damage result to the forward fuselage. Light damage to the cockpit isn't overmodeled so that it knocks out multiple gauges or the gun sight.
The problems are:
1) Hits to the oil cooler in the wing still don't trigger an oil leak.
2) Aileron Control hits are still too easy to achieve.
3) Hits to machine gun barrels still don't damage the gun.
4) There is still a gap between the armor glass and the forward cockpit armor that allows bullets to get in.
5) The vulnerability of the fuel system is just as bad as in the Corsair I. That is, even one .303 bullet starts a gigantic fuel leak that doesn't stop, catches fire easily, and runs the engine out of fuel in very short order. This occurs even for hits very high in the tank that would realistically be above the fuel fill level, especially after a leak.
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