One thing about steel, it doesn't burn.  After installing these mod's the only damage that I could do to other planes most of the time was to kill their engines.  Then they would make a deadstick landing.  I was able to shoot down a total of around 10 planes and of those I was only able to shoot off more than tiny pieces of the enemy plane (at the most) in every case except one when I was able to shoot off both right wings.  There was absolutely no smoke or flames in any case whatsoever.  And the "topper" was that out of the approx. 10 planes that I got I only received credit for 3 (the rest were parked in various farmer's fields around the countryside).  Please don't take this as a complaint or criticism in any way.  I appreciate all the time and effort to make F.E. a better sim.  Keep up the good work. 
  
CB 
  
p.s.  I went into the "ini" files and changed the steel armor to wood (but haven't flown since then).