Yak-9T - incredible firepower (or maybe incredible tank's lack of armor?)

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Originally Posted by majorfailure

Japanese tanks can be killed by bullets as small as .50cal.

Not just Japanese AFV. Lots of light/early war AFV should be vulnerable to 0.50 caliber AP rounds.

Originally Posted by majorfailure

And what I want is some armor model that takes bullet size (or better remaining bullet energy after penetration-then for APHE the additlional chemical energy could be used, too) into account. So that not every penetrating hit is a kill.

This is a good addition to my proposed damage model where you have an intermediate "damaged" stage for AFV.

Projectile size is a pretty good substitute for complex math about shell composition, angle of attack, fragmentation, fuse reliability and all the rest of it when determining whether a hit does no practical damage, serious damage or kills a vehicle.

Originally Posted by majorfailure

Hmm, T-34 did use diesel fuel, that does not burn instanteneusly, must have been a lucky hit.

Or an explosive or incendiary round.