Is gun damage modeled?

[SCG_motoadve]

For example gun , or gun ammo case gets a hit,  and disables it or gun overheat, or jam?

 

[FTC_DerSheriff]

jup is possible

[Velxra]

If a fixed gun is shot with a bullet it can indeed become damaged and unusable. Though it seems to be a rare occurrence or we will have bailed out of the plane by that point. 

 

However there seems to be no modeling of possible explosion or malfunction from excessive overheating of the guns. If a weapon does overheat it will solely have a wider spread of a firing cone in game and that is it. In real life excessive heating would either deform the barrel or take the weapon out of headspace causing a jam or self detintation to name a few of the possibilities. 

Edited May 3, 2019 by Geronimo553

[Sublime]

I dont know what happens when they overheat as the one time it happened was today - I was spraying away and my plane got hit severely - like broke in half.  Right then they began overheating so I kept shooting to see but the plane crashed really quickly.

A warning thing did come up saying "gun overheating"

Edit: Ah geronimo explained what happens I see

Edited May 4, 2019 by Sublime

[=FEW=fernando11]

Amunition stores can be hit, and they will

 explode. At least a couple of updates before it could happen, but not very often.

[Field-Ops]

Gun overheat happens on the ground a lot faster than in the air. Makes sense since airflow cools the guns while flying but still air on the ground doenst help. 

[Ghost666]

Over heated the guns on a P-47 sitting on the runway. Had unlimited ammo, they heated up, tech note, but only stopped for a couple of seconds to reload. The cone of fire did increase, quite a bit.

[E4GLEyE]

the guns in RoF and FC can jam randomly... that feature seems to be missing from ww2 birds (tho the "recock" animation is there) but if shot you can loose your guns and as mentioned above, heat only causes inaccuracy. 

[LukeFF]

25 minutes ago, E4GLEyE said:

the guns in RoF and FC can jam randomly

 

They only misfire. Jams are not modeled.

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

Guns damage use to happened more often , I  don't remember when I had it broken.

[LuftManu]

Well, I usually see more gun damage when fliying with the 41' planes and the 7,62 guns.

It makes sense as the further we go, the bigger the gun, the bigger the damage.

 

I think that if a 20mm hits you, the gun damaged is the best posible outcome for your craft ?

Edited May 4, 2019 by LF_Gallahad

[56RAF_Roblex]

Here is an example of gun ammo exploding.  I was only shooting with machine guns.

 

 

 

It certainly seems rare to see your guns disabled due to wing damage in BoX though.   It was more common in CLoD but who is to say who is right?

Edited May 4, 2019 by 56RAF_Roblex

[LuftManu]

Quite satisfiying

 

 

Edited May 4, 2019 by LF_Gallahad