3BM44M Lekalo with 650mm PEN for USSR please


Russia has one of the worst shells at top tier, that being the “old” 3BM60 shell. The new 3BM44M Lekalo shell only recently entired service. It can be fired from the “older” 125mm found on the T-90, T-80 and T-72.

The 3BM44M Lekalo is a sub- caliber shell with a high-durability plug made of tungsten alloy, aswell as a more powerful gunpowder charge called 4Zh63. This gives the 3BM44M Lekalo 650mm of penetration.

This will be more in-line and balanced with its western counterparts.

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3BM60 is fine, why does Russia need DM53 level penetration when their ammo is more than enough for the majority of things they fight? There are a grand total of ~four vehicles in the game that require a player with 3BM60 to actually aim for small weakspots to kill, everything else is an easy penetration through the hull/majority of turret for a one-shot.

Don’t see the imbalance. The uparmored Leopards need to be uptiered, not matched/exceeded in capability. Unless you also agree with fixing heavy ERA interaction (no longer guarantees protection of 200mm on unangled hits) and giving other nations anti-ERA darts to bring them also to the new level of performance.

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3BM60 has better pen than 3BM44 700~ vs 600~ so in the game it performance would be somewhere between 3BM42 and 3BM46 closer to 3BM42.

There is also 3 different DU rounds that could be added, 3BM59 is basically a DU 3BM60

2A7 still the top dog even after several times getting nerfed

Took it out after not playing it for a while, every game is against ru and look how many t series it massacred

If compression really kicks in, the only 12.7s imo is 2A7 and 122B, probably Merkava 4M while everything else is 12.3

Sure! Once rounds such as M829A4 or even M829A3 and similar rounds are added for other nation