It depends on the ERA. Kontakt 5 and Relikt are quite strong against darts because their flyer plates are very heavy and they use a quite potent explosive type,making the dart extremely weak upon contact with the real armour. The M829A3 was created specifically to defeat Kontakt 5 and rumours around the M829A4 states it can defeat Relikt as a whole because the round is also firing a precursor shell to preemptively fuse the ERA.
The downside of such ERA is that infantry can’t operate close to a tank because if a ERA plate activates,you’ll be dead either by the explosion or by the heavy ahh flyer plate going against you
What about like 30mm sabot bushmaster, with one shot the whole ERA block should be destroyed, why ingame this does not happens? you need many sabot shots.
I can argue that some tanks can’t be played in AB and vice versa, but they’re very few and they don’t make a relevant statistical case. It’s tiring to hear this discourse to convince that AB is worthless
For the most part yes but sometimes sabot (thin metal rod basically) might be not enough of a trigger for ERA to detonate. The stronger the impact the higher the chance for ERA detonation so in case of Bushmaster it might simply not have enough punch to it
I looked again at the M1 - BR 10.7 - and it does not show the DM33.
Even the M774 (a Tier 4 mod) does not have a good chance of penning.
Oddly enough, the HEATFS round has the (relatively) best chance against the flat UFP. But that is a relatively small window of opportunity - especially on a moving target.
It might look like it but its actually pretty easy to disable from the front. protection analysis isnt really correct with impact map so here is my own map of green sectors (excluding LFP):
