Question for Devs about Weight Effect From Onboard Ammo

[Cognac]

Hi guys. I'm curious: I know that the fuel load effect on the FM is replicated; the less fuel onboard, the more agile the plane. But what about ammo? Does the plane's performance improve as it expends rounds? The way I see it, and I'm not an engineer, (but I was a an AVN Tech in the RCAF),;if we take the average weight of a 20mm round as say, with casing, to be 1lbs, and we have a gun loaded with 500rounds, that's a significant load to fly around with.

 

So have you guys done the modelling on this? I'm only curious. It would be some pretty daunting maths! 

[pilotpierre]

I notice after expending all my ammo I have to retrim the a/c so it must.

[Mikey]

if i remember correctly ive had one cannon knocked out while the other fired till it ran out of ammo and the plane was rolling to the side with the knocked out cannon with ammo still in it

[LukeFF]

The weight of ammo is taken into account.

[dkoor]

Nice.

Can I ask one more question regarding on board ammo?

 

Is there any chance that loaded ammo explodes when hit, on fire and such?

 

There have been some real guncam vids where it shows, FW-190 me thinks, how wing exploded after it got hit by attacking aircraft rounds.

Must have been that on board ammo went off.

 

Same for fuel tanks (now we don't have any, but when we do...).