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What are you basing that on?
I believe the Mk 108 30mm gun was actually quite good at getting a mobility kill. One Me 262 pilot (I'm sorry I can't remember but he was interviewed by a US museum curator) said he hosed the rear deck of tanks where the intake louvers for cooling the engine were. This is a big target. I can well imagine the blast, concussion and incendiary effect damaging an engine or at least bursting a radiator hose. In addition running gear, tracks, optics and external gun mounts could be damaged. A lot of tank kills probably were just mobility kills. It may have been quite good at this.
However nobody has copied it for any purpose in the last 70 years which may tell us something also.
A lot of ground guns have gone to dual feeds allowing the gunner to change types of ammo in 1-2 seconds (one belt of AP and 2nd of HE for example) and still nobody is using the HE mine shell.
Because an ATA missile can achieve much better results at distances far greater than 690 meters...Because technology advanced past it?
I recall the DEFA and ADEN cannons were developments of the late war mauser rotary cannon, they initially used 30mm mine shells but in testing were found to be less effective than a heavier shell with higher velocity and more fragmentation, so the mine shell concept was dropped in favour of a lower filler capacity but greater fragmentation!
It would seem the mine shell was in reality a dead end and post war scientific testing discovered it's flaws, modern HE cannon shells are all about the fragmentation pattern and density, and far more effective than the mine shell concept.
More effective for what?
Were there any attempts at shaped charge 30 mm mine shell developments during the war?
So how could they confirm the "mobility kill"? did the 262 stick around to check if anyone bailed out, or did he make a pass and get the hell out, did he hit the tank, compare the tank claims in Normandy to the real toll on vehicles and it all gets a bit doubtful.
These kind of anecdotes really are dubious and likely just that, anecdotes.
To be fair the 40mm Bofors round uses a proximity fuse and the fuse and fragments turn what would be a miss with a contact fuse into a hit. I am not sure if anybody has managed to get proximity fuses down to the 30mm size.
The early post war French and British revolver cannon used shorter cases and lower velocity but the low velocity was problem with getting hits. In addition to needing a high starting velocity you also need to retain velocity and light for their size (or frontal area) shells do not do this well. You can only trade shape (pointy nose) vs weight so much and long pointy noses may exceed the cartridge overall length the feed mechanism or gun mechanism allows.