Question on aircraft

[seabolt]

I'm 99% sure that every airplane quits the battle after a single point of damage, with durability simply determining whether it fireballs (and provides your opponent with victory points) or retires (no points).

Armor rating 0 will take damage from small arms, which usually do the hitting only because there's a bunch more of them than dedicated AA on the field until radar guidance and SAMs change things up. Armor 1 will on average bounce a few small arms hits before it lets a hit through. You rarely see armor 2 take damage from small arms, which is what makes the Il-2 and such worth the cost of purchase, whereas anything with armor 1 is iffy and you should only expect 1 pass from armor 0 planes unless their ECM rating is through the roof.

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