Hi Pursuivant, are you aware that those arrows from arcade mode in your screenshots represent only the direction the bullets were traveling when they hit the first solid object, and not their actual path? So if a bullet is traveling towards the pilot's head but is stopped by the armored glass, the arrow will still go through the pilot's head.
So for example you can have a screenshot of the pilot looking like Hellraiser with all those arrows in his face, but in game all those bullets were actually stopped by the armored glass.
Also, 2-5 bullets to reduce power or completely kill an engine does not sound unrealistic. Neither do kills from "a few" bullets to unprotected fuel tanks.
Finally, the only effect of light damage on the fuselage is a small aerodynamic penalty. Again, it does not seem like an unrealistic result of taking eight or nine .50 caliber bullets like the Val in your screenshot.
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