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Armor Piercing Bombs

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Armor piercing bombs are now supported, giving ships with heavy deck armor much better protection.
This update also improves aircraft performance issues when running the game under low FPS.

Change log below:

Version 1.08e9

30 Jul 2021

GENERAL
brooklyn, pensacola _model.txt corrected directors
cleveland, baltimore secondary rotations corrected
shokaku_data.txt corrected TDS values

Added support for armor piercing bombs and re-balanced bomb damage
Ammunition text files added new variable: mmArmorPen - armor in mm that a bomb can penetrate
Ammuntion txt files for all bombs edited damageAmount and mmArmorPen values as below:


		Damage		mm Armor Pen.
bomb_ij_60kg		300		25
bomb_ij_250kg		1030		35
bomb_ij_250kg_ap	600		50
bomb_ij_500kg		614		80
bomb_ij_800kg		3820		70
bomb_ij_800kg_ap	357		150
bomb_ij_1600kg_ap	720		300
				
bomb_us_100lb		230		20
bomb_us_250lb		560		30
bomb_us_500lb		660		76
bomb_us_1000lb		1370		95
bomb_us_1000lb_ap	230		127
bomb_us_1600lb_ap	950		152
bomb_us_2000lb		4810		80

aircraft _data txt files and default/language/english/unit/air files edited to use AP bombs as default
avenger
dauntless
devastator
b17
kate
val
betty

All aircraft_data.txt files added new variable "defaultFlightNumber":4
- Scouts use 1, all other aircraft use 4

Ship primary guns, secondary guns and directors rotations offset on being destroyed

Fixed dive bomber locked in Level Out maneuver due to low FPS
Improved aircraft performance under low FPS, strafing, rockets, dive bombing

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Aircraft should no longer spawn under terrain

Air group panel now displays the number of aircraft still carrying a payload
default/language/english/dictionary/CMobileAirHeaders addeded "Available" to indicate aircraft within the group that have payloads

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