Something to think about.
I recently flew a Yak-9T to de-ack a field. Turns out when I got there the field was de-acked. A box of B17 were tooling around low enough that I was able to get in behind them. End result, I lost a wing and the center B17 lost parts from five 37mm hits. But, just kept flying. I fire the NS-37 on a separate trigger so hit sprites from the 50cal don't confuse my sight picture.
How many MK108 30mm rounds or NS-37 37mm HE rounds does the damage counter need to accept a B17 can no longer fly?
For offline testing, this is where I wish we had a toggle to say the drones fall out of the air under the same damage modeling as online in the MA. Instead of flying along missing both wings in the drone circle.