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>There wasn't a War Thunder forums around back then to let them know the real specs.
If I may nerd out in a different direction, that's one of the really interesting parts of Phoenix Command. It was clearly made with a great deal of autism, but available information in the 80s was... limited. To keep it down to one example, the Carcano is notably inferior to its contemporaries, as per its longstanding reputation, because it wasn't until the 2000s that we figured out that aftermarket ammo was using the wrong damned bullet size compared to original Italian rounds.