It’s freaking immune from the front against any medium or heavy tank till the VK.
You know how rare that is for any vehicle?
There’s good armor but then there is god tier armor.
It’s not immune at all. USSR 76mm can easily pen the roof and USA 76mm/GER 75mm can pen the MG port. The vehicle the Mk7 is immune to are immune to the Mk7 as well.
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Irrelevant because “can” isn’t equal to “is going to happen”.
A Zero is never going to catch a P-51, but it can kill it when it gets close.
I think it takes more than a 50% penetration chance hitting the roof armor from 100m to talk like the Churchill has no effective armor.
What? Where did I say it had no effective armor?
500m is not a realistic distance for the russian 76mm. The Mk7 too can’t touch vehicles with that cannon at this distance.
I don’t know what your definition of “immune” is.
It’s about the ricochet chance not the range.
The current inert M61 we have now is the “concrete” one.
Missing M61 APHE has been reported several times, Gaijin have said no and it’s due to game balance. Which is incredibly disappointing. If someone else wants to report it again, go for it.
I don’t know if this is actually the case. British M61 is noticeably lighter than M61 APHE, because as far as I know that weight is just the filler and fuse removed with no concrete filling.
I say “concrete” because I’ve never seen a primary source showing it was done. Seems like a waste of effort and man hours. I’ve found way more information on the British using both inert and APHE M61 than anything suggesting they filled the cavity with concrete.
M61 must have been supplied by the US right?
I think I vaguely remember a document listing 75mm ammunition, including inert M61.
So they most likely were produced that way by the US for Britain.
The inert M61 uses a base plug with tracer. Would be strange to remove the base fuze with tracer, remove the explosive filler and then screw in a different plug.
You could just unscrew the fuze from the whole assembly and would be left with just the tracer.
So unless the shells were produced inert, they wouldn’t have a different base plug.
It’s also interesting to note that the fuze lacks any bore saftey provision.
If something is inside the barrel, the round could detonate inside or shortly outside the gun.
Probably one of the reasons why the British didn’t want to fire these shells.