The Merkavas are not in great shape as of now,. Sure they can be effective, but they are underperforming when compared to the other top-tier vehicles the other nations are given.
Merkavas don’t need spall-liners at all, this is the smallest of problems the tank has.
Buffing protection would be the best, adding chains on the back of the turret and enhancing the capabilities of it’s composite armour.
Give more love to Israel.
Yes it was and it wasnt even the final 2a5, yet they use it to justify the 2a7v nearly 30 years later…
Theyll take measurements, samples and will still not change it
Excuse me but what were you expecting?
You guys are constantly ignoring all those sources and claiming those tanks didnt recieved improved armors, Whats more funny is that people who worked so hard on Leclerc,Abrams and Leopard2A7V reports gave you insane amount of sources that shows how wrongly modelled those tanks are yet all of them got ignored not to mention those people literally did your job, you’re the one who should find those informations before modelling those vehicles not us.
İts clear that you guys have learned nothing from your mistakes and constantly making same mistakes over and over again.
What a joke. Are you guys just disregarding every source you don’t agree with? Why does Gaijin have such an incessant refusal to upgrade the Abrams armor despite all the sources given? I don’t even play U.S. but this is so unfair for them.
The only supersonic jet that causes issues for 9.0s is T-2, F-4C, Nesher, & Mirage 5F. The rest don’t, not even Mig-19 & F-104… F-104 you just turn & win, especially if your 8.3 - 9.0 has AIM-9Bs.
19PT you force horizontal dogfight.
You listed all vehicles that I easily kill in my LIM 5P.
Yak-38, A-4N, Harriers, and Hunter are only danger if they’re on you’re tail.
Out-dogfight them.
The all-aspect missiles of 10.0 cause most of the issues.
I’m mad cause I’ve been playing Phantom FG1 and have been performing well…
I even easily killed an F-15A with it… I hate it.
Yep basically how to piss off your community 101.
For real german and us mains suffer the exact same fate. We should unite lol
They deserve everything whats coming for them.
“We’ll soon be releasing a dev blog on the hull armor for the M1 Abrams series of tanks, where we’ll explain why we believe that hull armor was not reinforced on production vehicles.”
Your “belief” has been proven incorrect in detail by a multitude of sources numerous times on the bug report forums. What a joke.
Oh so you’re concerned about the efficiency of the Abrams ? Its gonna get a better shell and better reload, you’re fucking serious ??
What level of incompetence does it take to think that the Leclerc and the Abrams should be on the same BR ?? The Leclerc now does EVERYTHING worse compared to all other mbts and you’re still telling me that you’ve got actual human developpers instead of monkeys in suits ?
Welp seeing how the leclerc’s, Abrams, leopards improvements all got denied i have zero hopes for the challenger 2s mantlet lol
Posting an edit:
In a previous blogpost, you said spall liners are made of aramid and other fabrics. But it’s not always that. They can also be indistinguishable from plain steel, and incorporated into the armor itself which is painted over. The Merkava’s interior appears solid and is painted white.
Throughout the Merkava’s history, it has demonstrated very low casualty rates.
Although briefly, it mentions spall liner:
Defense Update: - Military Technology & Defense News – 14 Jun 07
Assessment of the Second Lebanon War By Col. David Eshel
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Merkava 2 tanks taking multiple ATGMs and ATRs. One hit 7 times, another hit 3 times. Munitions descriped as Sagger, TOW, and RPG-29. In total, 2 light injuries. (Page 31)
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Merkava 1 reducing penetrations from 61% down to 40% compared to the Magach and Centurions, but mean casualties per damaged tank is down from 2.31 to 1.1.
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While I could not find anything immediately on the Merkava, I could find something on the Namer which is built with the same armor in a different geometry.
You can see here on its roof what appears to be not the structural steel but an added layer.
Well, your “opinion” is - “we re-create in game tank from year 2018 based on year 2005 tender”. What you expect? Flowers?
If I say that they said this, even, to paraphrase, one of the project managers said this, then what? Will you change your mind like your shoes?
To be honest, i find quite fantastic the justification for adding 5 seconds reload ( Comparing a 105mm shell with a 120mm shell is not one of the best ideas, but oh well ) when its not really needed, we all know i think that an M1A2 IRL can load in 5 seconds without issues.
But then denying a bug report with 10 ( ten ) secondary sourced, based on 1 ( one ) secondary source about the reload rate of the Leclercs, this yes is quite depressing.
Leclerc ( All Variants ) wrong rate of fire // Gaijin.net // Issues
3-5 bug reports on the abrams hull armor alone and they said “Why we believe that hull armor was not reinforced on production vehicles.” Like, where does that extra 15 tons of weight come from? electronics that weight almost a ton each in the Abrams upgrade?
Seriously man.
We players gave you as accurate information as possible about the Leopard 2A7V, but you used documents from the last century to prove the armor of the 2017 Leopard 2A7V.
Why not make all 11.7 Russian tanks only capable of firing 3BM42, isn’t it a testament to history?
I will leave my personal comment on STEAM again and then uninstall the game.
How about China?
Where is China?
None of you developers even remember there’s a China ground TT? Or we don’t give you informations of Chinese tanks liners in issues? We do that FAR more than once!
Sorry, only Russia gets love
(also chinese air is anemic, where is the J-10 or the neat trainer/attackers?)
