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Originally Posted by Pursuivant

NO GREAT BIG HOLES IN THE AIRFRAME. NO AIRFRAME FAILURE (without secondary explosion). EVEN THE CONTROL SURFACES STAY PUT!

IMO, it should be just about impossible to make an airplane fall apart using .30 caliber guns, and very difficult to do so using .50 caliber guns. Heavy damage textures should be very difficult to trigger using .30 caliber guns and somewhat difficult using 0.50 calibers. This isn't just the FW-190, its just about all the planes in the game.

The exceptions are:

Any caliber weapon should be able to cause secondary explosions which can tear a plane apart.

Any caliber weapon should cause progressive airframe weakening which can cause airframe failure if the target plane subsequently attempts to fly at maximum speed (or overspeed) or attempts to pull high G maneuvers.

0.50 caliber guns might be able to break the airframe on a relatively small, lightly built aircraft, particularly one which isn't fully aerobatic (i.e., not stressed to cope with more than 3 g positive or -1 G negative).

Totally in agreement.