Slow and low flying, so WG had to compensate it somehow. And there appeared a problem, as plane was delicate, so can't do it a flying tank as US planes, and with only 2 pieces of armament it wasn't stellar.
So WG cheated, buffing cannons to insane levels, of course in hidden stats:
| 20mm cannons hidden stats |
I-16 Late's ShVAK |
Bf 109B's MG-FF |
Ki-45-I's Ho-3-II |
|---|---|---|---|
| autoaim angle (circle surface) |
2 (~12.5) | 2.5 (~15.7) | 3.5 (~21.99) |
| dispersion angle | 0.6 (~3.77) | 0.6 (~3.77) | 0.5 (~3.14) |
| dps | 65 | 67 | 60 |
| overheat | 4s | 4s | 4.5s |
Despite lesser dpm, bigger autoaim and smaller dispersion mean that comparing to same tier cannons, more than 1.5 times more damage is being delivered. Plus really high hidden chance to inflict critical damage make this plane a surprisingly effective weapon platform at that tier.
Only that it flies really slow - about 300 km/h, in level flight it can be boosted to a bit more than 400 km/h, and max diving speed is only about 515 km/h, so is quite frustrating to play, except the times you pump damage to a plane ahead.
Buy, grid and sell, because there are much more better planes at tier IV, not depending on enemies coming one after one and dogfighting.
