There are three types of armament that could be used from the air against tanks. Rockets, if they hit would be devastating, because of the relatively huge explosive content. Bombs would be moreso, but they would have to detonate on impact and that would very probably destroy the attacking aircraft, so that that would be unlikely to happen. The third thing is guns, but there are two types of warheads here, solid shot, and high explosive. High explosive wouldn't get through the armour. Solid shot might, but that is much less effective as an air to air weapon. Most of the guns in IL*2 fire high explosive air to air rounds, it is after all a flight simulator, but those would have been ineffective against tanks in the real world.
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