30mm damage

[Scotch]

Anyone who flies 30mm birds often has probably run into this before. There's been numerous threads started about this issue, but very few films. You earn that sweet tater shot on a Spitfire only to have him shrug off the hit with minimal to no damage and fly off as if nothing happened.

In this case the lucky Spit14 takes a fuel leak after being hit by a 30mm round from within d200... 

http://dasmuppets.com/public/Scotch/SPITTATER.ahf

[uptown]

Pretty nice moves on your part regardless of your crappy German ammo 

[Shuffler]

DOH!! 

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

It just should not happen, a 30mm should knock the wing right off.
Why is it x2 20mm can do it, but a nice solid 30mm is like a kiss to your enemy's plane?


Was it not rare to make it home in ww2 in a fighter aircraft after being hit by a 30mm? (i have seen one picture of i think a hurr with its tail section split, dunno if that should count, no fuel.)


I would think a 30mm to a wing filled with fuel & ammo, also (a high probability of being under + or negative G load!) would snap most fighters wings clean off.

[NOT]

It just should not happen, a 30mm should knock the wing right off.
Why is it x2 20mm can do it, but a nice solid 30mm is like a kiss to your enemy's plane?[/font]


Was it not rare to make it home in ww2 in a fighter aircraft after being hit by a 30mm? (i have seen one picture of i think a hurr with its tail section split, dunno if that should count, no fuel.)


I would think a 30mm to a wing filled with fuel & ammo, also (a high probability of being under + or negative G load!) would snap most fighters wings clean off.

the extra 10mm??........maybe.......




NOT

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Perhaps NOT, but the point i was trying to get out.

I would think a 30mm to a wing filled with fuel (kaboom) & ammo (kaboom), also (a high probability of being under + or negative G load! Due to combat) would snap most fighters wings clean off.

[Halo46]

Couldn't see the video, but an example of some damage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPWlYhfhLrI

[Anaxogoras]

Yup, we've posted films and pics of this many times.  It seems to be unique to Spitfires (of all planes, of course!).  I wouldn't bet on it being fixed any time soon.

[USCH]

I too have had a lot of 30mm just shrugged off...
I have also fired the 37mm from the IL2 into lanc's (just firing the 37mm's) and had the lanc's fly off like i was shooting spitwads at them.

Wether its lag or rubber bullits idk but i would say 25% or more of my 30mm shots seem to have no better hitting than a single .50cal.

[TwentyFo]

Even worse, having a 40mm shell fired from a PT boat into the engine of an IL2. Watching it fly around with just an oil leak is funny.

[SouthLanda]

Just for the sake of this thread 
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,256729.msg3178668/topicseen.html#msg3178668

Film:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tjzmzh3tzg5

30mm hits all over and it just flies away.

[BillyD]

Hit cattb's spit 8 the other night in the wing w/ a 30mm with the same fuel leak....must be a programmin thing w/ spits.....

cattb;s spit was blessed that night I have a film somewhere.....great flyin

[Motherland]

Just for the sake of this thread 
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,256729.msg3178668/topicseen.html#msg3178668

Film:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tjzmzh3tzg5

30mm hits all over and it just flies away.

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My god, do I hate Lancasters. Hate them, hate them, hate them.

Unless I'm in a 110G

[shreck]

This happened to me last night as well as previous encounters! I think the spit has a very tough spot just behind the pilot, have hit them there with seemingly no damage several times. Don't know what this is about, maybe uber rear plate armor!! Couldn't see your film, although a wing hit should be catastrophic for the spit, I would think!

[Yenny]

This happen very often. One of the main reason why I don't fly the K4 and the 152. The 30mm are so unreliable. Sometime you'd put 2-3 rounds into another fighter plane and nothing happen. I once got onto an afk guy, got to about 50mm and just fire 1 round at a time w/ my k4 and it took 3-4 rounds for him to go down. It was a 51 too. After that incident I gave up on the 30mm and stick w/ my regular 20mm, where I know 5 20mm into a fighter plane and it will go down.