whats the best ammo for planes

[Iam_a_cow]

[Tankfriend]

API for machineguns, and HEFI for cannons. Preferably without tracer element (T), if possible.

Pick the ammunition belts that pack as much of these types of ammo as possible.
For example, the tracer belts for US .50cal machineguns are pure API-T, which is why people tend to nickname it the flamethrower (it looks like one because of the tracers, and it sets everything on fire in no time because it only fires API).

[Iam_a_cow]

Originally posted by Tankfriend:

API for machineguns, and HEFI for cannons. Preferably without tracer element (T), if possible.

thanks

[ManagerTricky]

Look for that has incendiery or high explosive. Usually stealth or air targets has this.

[Iam_a_cow]

Originally posted by SLaYeR_Griffin:

Look for that has incendiery or high explosive. Usually stealth or air targets has this.

i cant seem to find those iam still low tier (1 and 2)

[Dakota]

Incendiary, and high explosive shells. Tracers don't really matter, but sometimes I like to use them in hopes of putting the fear of my wrath into my enemies when I sneak up on them.

[Katokevin]

Originally posted by iam_a_cow:

Originally posted by SLaYeR_Griffin:

Look for that has incendiery or high explosive. Usually stealth or air targets has this.

i cant seem to find those iam still low tier (1 and 2)

Lets use the Yak-1 for an example. Look at the two types of guns. You have your 7.62mm MG and your 20mm cannon. Look at the ammo types for the MG first. Defult, universal, Tracers and Stealth. They are basicly the same belts, but stealth will have no tracers, and tracers will have all tracers. If you can't shoot to accuractly yet, I would take the Universal. Lots of good AP rounds and tracers. The small MG's are often just to kill the pilot and he often has an armored steel plate behind him (thats why you want AP rounds and the tracers to adjust your aim).

Then you have your 20mm cannon. The 2 main different ones are for ground targets and armored targets. Your cannons are often used to take out engines and/or penetrate, explode, and start fires or tear pieces off of planes. For this, you often want lots of High Explosive Incendiary (HEI), High Explosive Fragmentation (HEF) or Fragmentation Incendiary (FI).

So, for me, I like to start fires so I would take a Ground Target or Universal belt for my 20mm cannon and an Air Target belt for my 12.7mm. So, basicly, for small MG's you want to pierce armor and kill crew members (mainly the pilot so you want Armor Piercing rounds) and for the cannons, you want to blow pieces off the plane and start fires (so you want rounds that explode and start fires). But try to play around with different combonations of Cannon and MG belts and find what works best for you.

[Iam_a_cow]

Originally posted by Brainless Banana ☭:

Originally posted by iam_a_cow:

i cant seem to find those iam still low tier (1 and 2)

Lets use the Yak-1 for an example. Look at the two types of guns. You have your 7.62mm MG and your 20mm cannon. Look at the ammo types for the MG first. Defult, universal, Tracers and Stealth. They are basicly the same belts, but stealth will have no tracers, and tracers will have all tracers. If you can't shoot to accuractly yet, I would take the Universal. Lots of good AP rounds and tracers. The small MG's are often just to kill the pilot and he often has an armored steel plate behind him (thats why you want AP rounds and the tracers to adjust your aim).

Then you have your 20mm cannon. The 2 main different ones are for ground targets and armored targets. Your cannons are often used to take out engines and/or penetrate, explode, and start fires or tear pieces off of planes. For this, you often want lots of High Explosive Incendiary (HEI), High Explosive Fragmentation (HEF) or Fragmentation Incendiary (FI).

So, for me, I like to start fires so I would take a Ground Target or Universal belt for my 20mm cannon and an Air Target belt for my 12.7mm. So, basicly, for small MG's you want to pierce armor and kill crew members (mainly the pilot so you want Armor Piercing rounds) and for the cannons, you want to blow pieces off the plane and start fires (so you want rounds that explode and start fires). But try to play around with different combonations of Cannon and MG belts and find what works best for you.

iam a pretty good shot so i just need some thing power full and i use US air planes

[Katokevin]

Originally posted by iam_a_cow:

iam a pretty good shot so i just need some thing power full and i use US air planes

Well, I never played US planes much, but I think most belts (except tracers) worked well for me since you often just have multiple M2 brownings in Tier I-II.

[| BusteR |]

high explosives, if you use Germans later mingeshot, for Russia ground ammo has the most High explosive shots for some reason. But it mostly depends on the gun. a 7.7 and a 37mm cannon can have different results, and also where you're shooting is a big factor