Title says it all, I can’t remember if I suggested this already to be fair!
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You think planes have armor during this period, that’s adorable.
They tried that with one of the planes on the D-Day drops, welded a big ol’ metal plate to the deck to try and keep the flag safe. Turned the thing into a meteor after the first flak started going up.
Alright, so if you’re looking for a weak spots view, that would probably be more accurate. Couple things. First, the vulnerable spots are fairly obvious. Canopy, engines, tail are all extremely susceptible, wings are moderately susceptible. Second, it’s hard enough getting shots in sometimes, much less accurate shots, unless you’re tailing a brain-dead on autopilot and can line a sustained stream of shots on one point because the lead crosshairs are right over the plane.
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The Il-2 and especially the Il-10 would like to have word with you.
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No point
It’s on WT, why not let it be added here, it might help…
No need, I mean, If you wanna destroy a P- 47 is boderline imposible, It goes down after many many rounds but you cant turn it on fire, and its almost imposible to shoot the pilot down, maybe if he is turning and you get the angle from above, but besides that plane you always wanna shot at the center of the cockpit or the wings, the fuel is stored almos always on the inner side of the wings, or the center below
The p47 is quite tanky, but not IL-2 levels of bullet sponge. It is actually quite easy to take out the pilot from behind, you just have to aim at the glass while also taking into account bullet drop.
Im gonna record a video of a p-47 tanking 37 mm rounds
I can record a video of me shooting down a P-47 with just the two 13mm machine guns… Also, the P-47 is an attacker plane so it has to be resistant to damage, it definitely can’t take multiple hits from a 37mm cannon without at least losing a part or most mobility (which still means being destroyed).
Go ahead, and I get the point, if the P-47 is an attacker plane then It shouldnt be maneuverable, but it is, and I get the point of beign resistant but being resistant to 37 mm rounds its straight up stupid, It would be like saying that tanks should be ressistant to fucking 1k kilo bombs, but seeing that that seems fair to you its enough to ignore your opinon
It doesn’t have good maneuverability tho? In any case, it can at most out-maneuver the heavier attacker planes.
It isn’t “resistant” to 37mm, you just ignored the part in which I said that it would be impossible for it to tank 37mm… Of course, if you completely rely on the reticule (which you likely do) and only hit its body, then obviously it won’t go down instantly unless the pilot dies. Maybe actually try to aim for yourself, that way you can hit critical areas more often.
That isn’t even a close comparison. Don’t make up random arguments about me that never existed.
Sorry for using logic and not being bad at shooting down planes, I guess…
But it does, if it can outurn most planes then it is
It should be like that, but it is not, it can straight up tank 37mm rounds
you cannot rely on the reticule to shoot 37 mm rounds but ok surely I complain only cuz why not according to your logic
It may be exagerated but its as dumb as you saying that a P-47 could live trough an impact of a 37 mm round
what? how you even get to that conclussion, Im literally mostly a fighter pilot, I do this shit all the time, I can smash most P-47 without taking any dmg, the thing that bothers me is that It takes a dam ass long time, and axis planes dont have the ammo to deal with that BS, and at the minimum mistake the fucking P-47 just turns at full speed and hits you once or 2 times and you are done, thats complete BS, thats not about being “good” at shooting down planes, but if you are defending the absurdity of the P-47 being as it is there is not much to argue, you are just biased towards having this broken BS in the game, and if you use it you are not good at all, not at anything not at the game, not at shooting down planes, you are just abusing this broken plane as you said “I guess…” but not really, its just a fact
It what alternate reality it can “outrun” (in any case its “outflying”, and that’s still not the right word) most planes. Also even if it was in fact faster, it being faster doesn’t equal having better maneuverability. A concept as simple as that and you can’t even understand it, look up the definition of maneuverability, stupid…
It can’t “tank” even a single round, if you only hit around the body without hitting around the upper part for a pilot snipe or whatever else in there that can blow up then obviously it will survive. This applies to every plane, difference being that it’s easier to hit critical areas on others. Just being directly hit once by the 37mm considerably reduces performance, even if it didn’t hit somewhere critical.
You literally can, what you can’t rely the reticule for is the 30mm. The 37mm doesn’t have much of a drop and behaves pretty much like 20mm.
No it isn’t, you’re just dumb. The P-47 is a big plane, the 37mm also needs to go through multiple stuff behind the cockpit (look up a model). Again, it can survive 1 or 2 shots, it can’t tank them. An example of a plane tanking said shots would be the IL-2.
If a P-47 is taking multiple shots from a 37mm cannon, its either your fault or you’re getting Enlisted. Maybe you would stop having such bias if you actually used the plane and experienced how much you say it tanks 37mm.
Good story, bro. Really long ass paragraph just to say that you are bad at the game.
Literally takes me 2-4 shots of 20mm from a BF 109G6 to shoot down a P-47, achieved by either directly shooting the pilot or the wing.
The P-47 only really shines against infantry or tanks, its only moderately good at dogfighting (mainly because its 8 MGs). It has a bad turn, it has bad energy retention, it has wings made out of paper (only in the game tho, in real life the wings weren’t so weak). Any plane except the Bf 110, the Ju, and maybe the ME can’t outmaneuver it, and its a big maybe for the ME.
You can’t claim I am biased when I have used and shot down the P-47 when you haven’t even used the plane. Up until the stalingrad update it only shot 5 out of the 8 machine guns, it also had a pretty bad overheating problem when using WEP. Now it does shoot all MGs, but still has the overheating problem but less severe. Of course you didn’t know this, because you only use Axis and think that everything allies is unbalanced. Well, guess what? Allies think that Axis is also unbalanced. Only when you actually constantly play both you understand what’s actually unbalanced, and the P-47 definitely isn’t as unbalanced you think it is…