The He 112 was one of the first monoplane fighters that Germany had used, made in 1935 as a “high speed courier aircraft” to subvert the limitations placed on military development. During it’s initial trialing tests, as a prototype, against the BF 109, the 2 planes were judged similar enough during the prototype phase and development continue, but as it did, the Bf 109 showed much more promise and the He 112 lost the competition in the end, but Heinkel continued some work on it.
As for the He 112 A-0, which is in War Thunder, it would play very different from most planes in game. This is because while this fighter has no low caliber machine guns or bomb racks, it has a single 20mm cannon with 100 rounds in the nose and fires at only 325 RPM. This might sound rather underwhelming, but the stats of the 20mm are quite good. This gun was based off of a naval anti-air gun, the 20mm MG C/30L, and this 20mm has better stats than the 20mm MG 151 more common on aircraft.
Avaliable belts for the aircraft
Belt, Belt filling, Armor penetration (mm) at a distance:
10 m 100 m 500 m 1000 m 1500 m 2000 m
Default, API-T/HEFI-T/HEFI-T/HEFI-T, 37 35 27 19 14 10
API-T, API-T, 37 35 27 19 14 10
HEFI-T, HEFI-T, 5 4 3 3 3 3
Universal, HEFI-T/API-T, 37 35 27 19 14 10
As you can see, the API shell has 37mms of penetration at 10m and 35 at 100m, which is much higher than the 21mm at 10m and 19 at 100m penetration of the MG151, which will lead this plane to be able to shoot low BR tanks with it’s cannon and do some good damage. I think this would be a cool plane for BR1 to try to take tanks out with.
- TT
- Event (either as separate vehicle or with a squad)
- Premium
- Shouldn’t be added
- Default (1 AP for 3 HEFI-T)
- API-T (all AP)
- Universal (1 for 1)