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You know the spitfire has 4x that much firepower and it was still considered insufficient for dealing with aircraft about the same size as a beaufighter, stop whining
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idc?
no?
why should a rifle round be good against an all metal aircraft?
dunno, fun or smth like that.
The aluminum on aircraft is very thin, a rifle round will go through. It’s just the game’s fucked up when it comes to aircraft damage in this game.
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There was a reason why everyone stopped using low caliber machine guns on planes.
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I love the way, plane is smoking, fuel leak, would fly for maybe another minute tops, people still complain about damage of a rifle round, I think the video proves they do damage, nothing like previously when you emptied whole clips into targets - even IL2 goes down easily on Moscow now.
I think the initial MG armament on the aircraft was a design hang up from WWI, as soon as the modern aircraft became more sturdy writ large, the designers quickly started to re-engineer aircraft with cannon to allow a greater burst mass in a shorter period of time. A faster engagement meant greater chance of success and survivability.
The MGs could do the job (unlike what you see in the video) it just took a lot longer in comparison to a cannon.
Regrettably that’s not what the game issue represents.
You have to also account for actual pilots having much lower percentage of shots actually hitting target - that’s why there are so many guns in the first place, to improve the chances of hitting. They would also often be set to converge at different distances to spread the fire over a wider area, making hitting with at least some shots easier.
Machineguns were indeed insufficiently powerful, but a combination of cannon armament having jamming or other issues, politics and massive stockpiles of machineguns and their ammunition delayed the adoption of more effective weaponry.
Most aircraft skin is so thin that you are not allowed to walk on it except marked spots - because it would bend underfoot. P-47 supposedly had a thick skin, and that was only 0.051" (1.3mm) duralumin (but varied by location - plane skin was not used as armor generally speaking, the thickness was just enough to prevent it from crumbling under stress - and actual armor plates only cover small areas on most planes, and those would only be sufficient against small shrapnel and rifle caliber rounds mostly)
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