About damage location...
Yesterday I was in A fw190A5 near A27 and I dived in a tiffie to clear a countrymate's six, that put a Knit La5 on my 6 but I was confident that my speed plus could made me live...I fired the typhoon pinging it a bit and making him break (lated got an assist...hi wilbus
) then I pulleda vertical climb to make the La5 after me hang in prop and kill it in a hammerhead...
of course the La5 was a bunch slower and when it hanged in prop it started to spray (as usual
). I was pure vertical, and so he was. I heard a single ping and BANG, my engine died...quite strange when the shot was from directly behind
(BTW, no oil leak, simple BANG and engine gone).
The La5 was shredded by 3 bishops that got him hanging on prop
and I killed a P51 with the engine ded
But, to the matter, how can a 20mm burst reach a 190's engine from DIRECTLY behind?...it is a bit weird...because I was in the middle of the way to the engine and my pilot had no wounds