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    Best Bomber Killing Aircraft......

    Airplane Vulnerability and Overall Armament Effectiveness Weiss, Herbert K. ; Stein, Arthur Airplane Vulnerability and Overall Armament Effectiveness
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    Best Tank Killer of WW2 continued

    Not WWII, but definitely tank busting: http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/reports/after_action/employment_of_armor_in_korea_vol_1_operations_research_study.pdf Page 36. Against North Korea tanks napalm was most effective weapon. It killed more than artillery and UN tank fire. First war...
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    Armor Penetration - 20mm vs. .50 cal.

    Stated ФУГ (ФУГасный) – High Explosive, same for Hispano (Ф - Фугасный). Not specifically stated but looks like randomly distributed, except for Il-2 testing. During that testing «wings were not taken into account» Translation
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    Armor Penetration - 20mm vs. .50 cal.

    Russian tests find that it took 1-2 hits from MG151/20 to down a light fighter (La-7, Yak-3 or P-39). 50 cals needed 10-15 hits. So one MG-151/20 canon was a rough equivalent of six 50 cal machinegun battery and four MG151/20 were equivalent of 24 50 cal machineguns. Hispano was 50% worse than...
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    Armor Penetration - 20mm vs. .50 cal.

    Greetings ladies and gentlemen. I think you could find this information useful, its in russian, but tables are easy to understand. http://okirillov.tripod.com/data/rastr/Spravka.htm Tables № 1 and 2 (табл. №1, табл. №2) show results of aircraft weapons testing which took place in...
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