What is going on? I remember reading that there was some issues with the angles that aircraft cannons are hitting vehicles. By way of example, the resource states that the 3.7mm cannon on the BF110-G2 has 108mm of penetration. This is MORE than enough to pen the top armor of most tanks. In practice, however, I find most of the shots ping, unless they hit DIRECTLY over the engine.
Anyone have any insight? @Euthymia07 ?
Aircraft cannons meant to penetrate, in general, always seem to be bugged and suck at their intended role, which is unfortunate given that is the main selling point of most of the planes that have them.
The Bf 110 G-2’s 37mm cannon seems to be bugged forever already.
2 months ago there was a fix: “Corrected the HVAP-T in the 37 mm cannon of the Bf 110 G-2.”
I dont know what the applied fix was or what it should accomplish.
Yet still it fails to destroy most tanks.
All I could do in practice is take out little BR 1 baby tanks:
However, the USSR 37mm on the Yak-9T actually does destroy higher BR tanks.
Since the G-2’s cannon has been failing for so long, info from the knowledgeable helper is needed and appreciated.
I have been trying to use the 40mm hurricane for the longest time but I gave up because my rounds never seemed to do anything to the weakest tanks in the game.
Might be a skill issue but the only planes that seem to have effective anti-tank aircraft cannons are the duck and the yak 9k
I just took the IL-2-37 to practice.
On the first pass, I shot a Tiger H1 on fire, turned around and single shot killed Jagdpanzer IV, at the same time the Tiger blew up (both are BR IV).
That was just beautiful.
I really wish/need the G-2 cannon to function properly also.
I do need to mention that the cannons of the Yak-9T and IL-2-37 have a very high rate of fire, which is very useful, while the G-2 has a very slow rate.
Thanks, I havent used the 40mm forever, will give it a go on practice.
According to the old WT wiki the belt we are using is 1/2 HVAP, 1/2 HEF-T
That 108mm is at 10 (ten) meters range when impacting the armour at 90 degrees (or 0 (zero) depending which way you think about it!) - aircraft are generally in a dive and flat top armour will be quite heavily sloped in respect to the direction the round is coming.
Range doesn’t matter too much - there is only a 25% or so drop in penetration from 100-500m
The HVAP has low damage after penetration due not having any HE filler, and might conceivably go right through a tank and hit nothing!! Which is likely why engine hits are noticeable - an engine will always stop it!
It was already fixed and the last time i checked the plane it had no problems destroying tanks
of course it struggles in practice but so does every other plane since tanks in practice lack crew
