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Yeah, 14.5mm seems to have really odd damage in 1.2. You can destroy a tank by shooting its rear with the 14.5mm for 100 rounds. And yet it requires around 70-90 rounds to blow up a BMP-3. And like any russian APC, the armor on BMP3 is not at all heavy. 14.5mm damage against APCs is not that much bigger than .50cals, eventhough they are a much much more effective round. 14.5mm is an AP round, whereas most .50cals are just ball. I think this round was nerfed a lot for 1.2, except against tanks where it has magical penetration. Kind of silly.

Yesterday I was gunning a BTR in Muttrah, I don't know which one MEC uses, probably the 60 one. So, I noticed that with 50 rounds of the 14,5 I cannot destroy 2 american boats, I destroy one, shoot the second one, reload, then finally destroy the second one. It is just a boat for cry out loud.

70 rounds to kill VAB VTT

Forgot to add, damage against helicopters is very poor also. Seems odd for a caliber made mostly for anti-aircraft purposes. Needs more than 1 magazine against a moving huey, as opposed to 0.98 where the required burst was around half a magazine.