Abrams missing a sizable amount of armor in front of the Breach

Machinery of War Discussion Ground Vehicle
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You’re being argumentative at this point… Welds would break with just the vibration of normal travel holding down that much frontal weight. Think of 6 sleeves, welded and asking them to stay in one place with all the shock from cannon firing, moving and taking enemy fire

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Sure…

Thick enough sleaves and properly welded could easily work and wouldn’t pressent any issues, afterall the shock and vibrations that it would experience is not any diferent that any weld in the tank.

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I assure you, I’m not just pulling stuff out from my butt. I can email you from my business email if I have to prove myself lol. I don’t do stuff for the military but I do automotive aftermarket components.

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That’s your opinion

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Hmm, I always thought it strange that America woulda made the breech thinner than the rest of the turret.

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My thoughts exactly

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Hey, any more thoughts on this? I believe I made my case. If not could you let me know what else I have to figure out? The whole point of Abrams is to be hull down and the US mil would not overlook such a design flaw

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https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/h5x9FLvfMS9T

Made another bug report…

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I would probably put a note saying the linked wiki source is an pdf of a document so they don’t assume it is wiki article.

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Fixed, thanks!

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will this increase the tank’s survivability? Most players aim for the open turret ring anyway

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Hull down, yes

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I don’t think they’ll change anything. The same thing happened with the reduction in the size of the turret ring.

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RIP. Oh well not surprised.

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Not too strange when every other top tier MBT also has a thinner breech than the rest of the turret. Breech is between 80-400mm KE on every 12.0 MBT in the game, which doesn’t even match TKX turret armour (~600mm)

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wasn’t it accepted and has been like what, an year since then and nothing?

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Yes, how the developers quickly buff Soviet vehicles and how long they stubbornly refuse to buff American vehicles.

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nato in general, not just american ones

see how quickly they nerfed the leo2 once it was reported with the gun depression after it reaches close to the engine deck? like ffs…

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Yes, that’s why I stopped opening Germans.
USA, I finally opened the tops and now I regret the time spent.

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Community Bug Reporting System if it makes you feel any better they accepted a different one 2 months ago