Hispano Mk.II (20 mm)

Description

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General info

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Available ammunition

• Default
  • HEF-I (High Explosive Incendiary Fragmentation Shell)
  • P (Practice Shell)
  • T Tracer Shell)
• Universal
  • HEF-I
  • HEF-SAFI (High Explosive Fragmentation Semi Armour Piercing Shell)
  • AP (Armour Piercing Shell)
  • T

• Air Targets
  • T
  • HEF-I
  • HEF-SAFI

• Ground Targets
  • AP
  • HEF-I
  • T

• Tracer
  • AP
  • T
  • HEF-I
• Stealth
  • HEF-I
  • HEF-SAFI
  • AP

Comparison with analogues

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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Pros:

• HEFI rounds can shred fighters in less than 3 seconds, in the hands of a skilled pilot
• AP rounds can penetrate light pillboxes

Cons:

• "Default" belt contains practice shells which deal far less damage than other ammuntion belts
• HEFI and HEF-SAPI rounds do more punctual damage compared to other countries' cannons due to possessing lesser amounts of filler
• "Air targets" ammuntion belts are less effective against bombers, instead, utilize stealth or Ground Targets ammuntion
• Cannons quickly overheat when repeatedly fired for long periods of time
• Initially cannons are quite inaccurate until they are upgraded
• Practice shell in Default Belt is mostly useless

History

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Media

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See also

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• reference to the article about the variant of the cannon/machine gun;
• references to approximate analogues by other nations and research trees.

External links

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• topic on the official game forum;
• encyclopedia page on the weapon;
• other literature.

Britain aircraft cannons
20 mm	Hispano Mk.I · Hispano Mk.II · Hispano Mk.V · Oerlikon KAD-B
25 mm	ADEN 25
30 mm	ADEN · ADEN Mk.4
40 mm	Rolls-Royce Type BH · Vickers S
47 mm	Vickers P
57 mm	Molins Class M
	Foreign:
20 mm	GI2 (South Africa) · Hispano 404 (France) · M61A1 (USA)
27 mm	Akan m/85 (Sweden) · Mauser BK27 (Germany)
30 mm	M230E-1 (USA)