If player is in manual control of unit, penalty of damage is no applied

If you take a certain amount of damage, your unit will start having degraded performance. For example, it will have a lower maximum speed.

If you are manually controlling a unit and you take an amount of damage which should give you a performance penalty it is not applied, you have to leave control of the unit and re-enter it for penalties to apply.

So I can get my tank down to 1% of health or even 0% (I've had cases where it would be at 0 but still alive), but if I was in the tank, controlling it while it took that damage, I can still go maximum speed.

Further, I believe there used to be a reload time penalty as well, which I cannot see in the current open beta (as of the 27th of June 2020). At low enough health, the tank AI is rendered useless and it won't shoot, but if you take control of the tank, it works perfectly fine (except the lower top speed, unless you were in control of the tank as it took damage). This becomes a big issues, when you pair it with the fact that the M1A2 outperforms every other MBT in DCS and take in consideration all the issus, which I have described in this thread: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=4403147#post4403147

Damage Taken.trk

I confirm!

Noticed this in a tank battle yesterday in the mission Fight Island on the Cold War 1947 - 1991 server.

Well, this was specific about taking damage. You take damage, while in the vehicle, max speed is not changed (bug). You exit and enter the vehicle again, now max speed is limited, as it should be.

In general, AI and players should have the same limitations, in my opinion.