German OOB 16: minor corrections

[PvtJoker]

Originally Posted by Pibwl

On the other hand, in spite of small caliber, it used HE shells (relatively long - http://odkrywca.pl/forum_pics/picsforum6/p064.jpg), so maybe it should be more than HEK 1.

According to Russian Natzvaladze (although probably basing upon some other source), ROF was 12-15 RPM, so it was quite big for a single-shot weapon. Also he gives penetration "at the attack angle of 60deg.": 60mm at 100 m, 19mm at 1000 m.

Those penetrations numbers are the same as given by Chamberlain, Doyle & Jentz in "Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War
Two". They also give 40mm at 500 meters (same angle). I did make a stupid error in my earlier extrapolation; correctly extrapolated penetration at muzzle would be 65mm at 30 degrees from those numbers.

In any case, good approximation of the data in game would be either AP Penetration 9 with range 30 if we go by Hogg, Gander & Chamberlain or Penetration 8 with same range if we go by Chamberlain, Doyle & Jentz. Range less than 30 gives too low numbers at 800-1000 meters. If Sabot is used, penetration 8 is clearly better since the Sabot calculations have more randomness at close ranges (by APCALC), but the range should IMHO still be 30.

As for the HE kill; for single shot weapons HE kill is standardized to 1 from 20mm to 39mm. The actual shell had only 5g of PETN explosive, so unless the fragmentation was really optimal, it would not have been very effective, anyways.