why is gunnery so much more difficult in clod than in 1946?

[JG14_Jagr]

Originally Posted by raaaid

have you ever ripped a wing off?

Given the AC types and the weapons they are firing you are not going to rip too many wings off period. Wings coming off are the result of secondary explosions on the aircraft being hit. Unfortunately people are programmed by the 10 minutes of WWII Gun Cam they see on TV..they don't see the thousands of hours where a plane gets hit and you see all sorts of indications of hits then the plane slowly loses altitude and crashes.. or rolls over and dives and the first time you know you killed the pilot was when it augers..

30mm class cannons were the first airborne gun platform that could sever a wing without a secondary...and they did that because they damaged through rapid gas expansion in a wings confined space. The 20mm shells simply don't carry enough explosive charge to create that large a blast wave..