Talking about aircraft like Hawker Hurricane or IL-2, which were both successful at air-ground attacks against armoured targets and I am wondering how they penetrate tanks with small caliber guns, while even the tanks on the ground with much bigger guns had problems doing that.
I guess it has something to do with being able to attack from above but even then, picking out and aiming at targets was done with the eye and they couldn't have flown much higher than 200-300 meters and their shells can only really hit the tank's armoured parts?
Does it have something to do with the muzzle velocity of the shells?
Thanks in advance.
Bookmarks