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Now, I know you may all be thinking 'as if you don't know what ammo to use' but I was shocked by some testing I did in the training mod.

What I noticied:

AP/SABOT/APFSD - Seems to work better on vehicles that have any kind of real armor (MBT, IFV, APC/LAV,Scimitar)
HE - All other ground based vehicles.

What about firing at aircraft though?

Seriously, I was suprised at what happened. I thought that HE was meant to be used on IFV,APC/LAV,Scimitar?

My tests were at close range. It really sounds wrong but now I'm determined to use AP on vehicles with any armor.

Thoughts?

what i've always been taught by my clan members was that AP (Armour Piercing) was better for armored targets because of the penetration that the sabot round gives. HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) was to be used against stuff like bomb cars and groups of infantry. I have no idea why HEAT is an anti-tank weapon but i've always been told that it is better against infantry.

Also use AP against bridges that need to be blown

I think AP rounds are better for Helos if u want them to die quick, but heat rounds will kill the Crew before the actual Helo ( If its opened like a huey for a LB)

I use AP for all armored targets and firebases/bunkers(if there's no infantry around), HEAT for all others. AP doesn't do anything against planes btw, shot at A10 several times with AP and nothing happened. Not sure if this applies to helo's too.

AP or HEAT it doesn't matter for aircrafts.

I've always used HEAT against aircraft, seems to do the job ;p

I find using HEAT rounds for bomb cars and technicals on AL Basra seems to work the best. They take out the driver and all the passengers quickly. Then you can always finish the car off with some nice coaxial mg.

AP rounds for Pure armor. Tank/APC/Warrior/Schimatar

HE rounds for Groups of Infantry in a bunker for example, or it can be used against an APC, it will just take 2-5 more shots to kill it facing front armor if the round doesn't bounce off.
It also works great when the infantry is behind cover, you can always shoot the wall next to them or behind them, and blast radius will usually kill them

For aircraft, if you can hit it, just get rid of it with a sabot round :]


TheOak82, my gunner and I have shot down an A-10 in a match in Kashan. It defiantly did work, took some good lead though

For firebases/bunkers, one direct sabot hit will bring it down to the base, and another shot will destroy it completely. But I have never tried using heat.

One tank HEAT into any chopper kills it immediately, one Sabot damages the transport/attack ones including Littlebirds (last I fired any at those)

I'd rather use APC AP on choppers since HEAT makes a big boom and the pilot notices it a lot easier than Sabots. If going for ground targets, it depends on what you want to kill. If you fire Sabots at a truck for example, you'll kill it very easily, but the driver may stop and the passengers bail out and seek cover in which case you only have coax to mow them down with.
Use HEAT and there will be bodies flying out the back of it until the driver's body comes next. ;P

SABOT is generally reserved for armor only. However, you can still get kills with it vs. Aircraft/Light Vehicles.

HEAT on the flip side is reserved then for light vehicles/Infantry because of its added damage radius. However, when you're shooting at something with light armor, ala an APC, if you are in a tank you can still shoot it with HEAT rounds and it will do a little less than the same damage as a SABOT round. The APC armor is so weak it doesnt matter what you shoot it with, because it should start flaming right away. This is a great trick for saving your SABOT rounds when you're on Kashan and dont want to waste them all on little APC's driving around all the place. Helos/Planes also can be downed by HEAT rounds.

If I remember right also, it doesnt matter if you shoot a bunker/FB with heat or sabot, because they should go down in one hit.