Today and yesterday I noticed my A20 getting damaged a few times without being shot.
No AA, no ground fire, just suddenly the tip of a wing breaks off.
Also damage to engines and fuselage.
Without being shot.
Flying safe, no damage and suddenly kaboom damage and crash.
AA can kill with one shot but there was none.
Nobody was credited with shooting me down because nobody shot me.
It even says I killed myself but I crashed coz no control after damage from nowhere.
Video: https://filebin.net/j9v6a7ppnc7rq4c6/2023_03_17T10.24.19Z.mp4
I start making my turn, right wing is ok.
One second later, no enemy fire, right wing is gone.
Maybe you lowered the flap withaut notice it
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Slow down and don’t turn so fast to avoid wing damage
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Good old wing rip … tho not sure if it should happen or not with A-20 or at what speed (so can’t tell if it’s a bug or not yet).
But anyway, yeah, basically too much pressure on the wings because the fast speed and turning so they rip and you crash.
From your replay, you started turning with ~540 TAS and your wings rip around 460 a few seconds later:
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Was your A-20G-25 upgraded? I tried to repro it a few times with the default 3 star A-20G-25 and i coudn’t, so not sure it that’s the reason or not …
Got the same problem on the Normandy one … if i ll go full throttle and dive to get max speed at spawn … the plane autodestruct 
Wow, I didnt know that could happen.
I will have to try to slow down a bit then…
Or maybe put flaps in combat to help turn more easy.
Thanks for checking.
Yes it’s max upgraded.
I use it in Tunisia only.
Hadnt used it for a while.
Used it for a few days now and had about 2 or 3 of these sudden crashes.
Ok thanks, I’m glad it’s not just me then.
It’s a bomber, why are you flying it like a acrobatic plane. If you notice when you go inverted the engine will sputter, it’s not meant to fly like a fighter plane.
I call user error.
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FYI
I found out the cause of this breaking of the wing.
Just before this happened, there was an update in which the plane’s spawn points were put further apart.
But not only further apart…also much higher.
I spawned at 800m and no longer at the usual 500 or 600m.
So coming from much higher up, going down directly towards the target (I urgently had to take out a tiger and I did), I reached a much higer speed than I would usually reach.
Thats why my wing broke when I made a turn and also why it hadnt happened before.
You got the same thing on A20 in Normandy and first Stuka on moscow not new
