This is what usually happens in an attack from a P-47/Fw-190/P-51

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In nature lions kill for food by suffocating their prey. They wound them to slow them down, panic them and try to keep them from struggling free (doesn't always work) but the coup is getting the snout of the prey inside the lion's mouth and holding them until they suffocate, not the neck bite that some other cats use.
Sure they fight with tooth and claw in territorial battles but they "go to checkout" when "shopping" as described above and yeah it was a shock to me when I found that out not many years ago.

Look where the lion ends up. Mouth to mouth with the zebra and the zebra might have run its last but we don't see the results.

Find the movie King Arthur to see both how and how not to run a slashing attack. Early on they do it right when saving Sean Connery as the Roman big priest (Cardinal or Bishop, I forget) and near the end they let themselves get slow and mixed into the melee and end up losing members.

It's not the plane that does the fighting. It's the pilot. Hartmann proved what works in a 109 just using position, speed, a hard move and brief close-in concentrated firepower. And even he didn't kill everything he attacked. But he did survive the war with the highest Ace-count and ran that up in about half the war.