The TT BMPT GL rounds sit right up against 2 fuel tanks, and majority of the cookoffs people are seeing is those GL rounds being ignited, those same fuel tanks sit directly above the Power system for the FCS, Stab, and oddly enough the radar system. Why is the power system not damaged from that detonation allowing BMPTs to keep cruising around flames ablaze firing.
Unless we get a view of the internals, it wouldn’t be far fetched to assume that engineers when designing the BMPT new of this risk and that entire setion self contained to not detonate into the compartment and cause external damage.
The X-ray view doesn’t do full justice for interior modules as everything appears “open”
They must’ve separated it with a thin film of unobtanium if there’s no damage to the power unit this close in relation.
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Granted that explosions vent upwards, I wouldn’t expect the bottom to give out and immedatly damage the power system.
You do make a point nontheless. Unless there’s some internal pictures of the BMPT to look at, this is a good bit of speculating on my part at this point.
but the power system is only one side, so if you hit the other side, you’re just about out of luck.
Actually, now that I’m looking at the model again, all the fuel tanks are external.
So fuel tank explosion kills are unlikely with how they’re positioned throughout the vehicle.
I’m not talking about the fuel explosion kills, I’m talking about the GL rounds, sat next to the fuel tanks, sat atop the power system, but when the GL rounds are being cooked off it doesn’t chain to the fuel tanks which would then chain to the power system it’s quite literally sat on top of, so even while the BMPT is spewing flames, it still has full turret and firing control, which seems idunno, silly? But I also don’t know how all of that is kept individual.
Which is why I said the xray doesn’t always do it justice if we don’t look for any reference to the internals.
And that’s also added that 30mm doesn’t have the explosive force to cause a deadly chain reaction and usually just cooks off, which brings up why I said the exposed belts on the BMPT were never a real concern.
BMP-2ms GL ammo doesn’t impulse the vehicle, and if people were that passionate, they would also be advocating for it blow that up, but it’s just the bmpt lol and it’s not even like it’s a pool of ammo like on the BMP-2m thats exposed, althought it is separated.
Yeah, one of lowest 120mm mbt’s ( 10.7) and having 408 pen.
Imagine lowest 120mm MBT on usa is 11.7 ( Yes that 120S is more TD instead MBT in 10.3)
I would imagine an APFSDS round piercing the armour, hitting a GL round, piercing whatever wall is sat between the GL rounds and the fuel tank would allow whatever explosion by the rounds + the heat from the APFSDS round striking the fuel tank would be enough force the KO that power system.
I also wasn’t aware to this buff to RU autocannons that happened around Christmas?
Maybe so, but then the question begs. If this should happen to the BMPT only , or should this also be applied to every other vehicle with closely situated modules to explosives and fuel tanks.
no br nerf is enough until we get scifi tanks
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sci-fi tanks, lmao. thats what people are basically asking to get added at this point.
Many of the tanks are already scifi in stats, the only realistic aspect is the models, and some of them may not even be accurate internally because of classification. Like moving rounds on the Merkava.
I think the real game changer is when Gaijin decides to make the push to allowing the Anti-ERA rounds to actually do their job.
Of course, basically every Russian MBT will become like the Merkava unrionically depending on what tank is carrying it.
Most other HIFVs are instagibbed when even looked at so even if it was I can’t imagine it making a difference for them, and then there’s the one who takes the slightest breeze and all of its systems are KO’d.
I still to this day don’t understand “Driver/Engine” the round and spalling completely missed all those charges and rounds sat on the carousel eh, and the carousel itself.
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Well, those HIFVS mainly have composites or ERA to boast, those do nothing against kinetic rounds, and nobody really uses HEAT at this tier, so it’s wishful thinking
And people seem to be assuming the BMPT it supposed to have the same treatment, even though it’s obviously on a T-90 tank chassis…
Armored carousal on the T-90
Also RedEffect did make a video analyzing a lot of Russian MBT explosions.
Most of what we see on videos are after the crew has abandoned the vehicle after a flameout, not necessarily an explosion. That’s just them being finished off with a grenade or something be tossed inside.
Them exploding instantly isn’t always guaranteed, but I guess most players just don’t like the chances added with spall liner and the armoured carousel and are like “I hit it, why is the ammo yellow!!!”
While blatantly ignoring the fact the same happens in NATO tanks with equivalent spalling xd
That depends on the angle you’re shooting the LFP, a lot of people tend to not realize that if you want the shot, both tanks have to aligned horizontally to some degree.
The only one I ever see really survive from LFP is the Merkava because the engine literally eats it all like a champ. From playing GB/JP top tier, and now SE, LFP shot for me is instant death every time, but somehow I still only get “Driver/Engine” on occasion.
And that’s why the Merkava got it’s ammo shoved int he front at one point. Because the playerbase is silly and couldn’t except they knocked out the engine, Merkava has to repair, and the fact the engine doesn’t fully eat the round and it will pass through majority of the time.
Crew placement was the deciding factor and the engine was just a good factor to blame it on.
Now maybe at lower tiers with less powerful darts the engine might eat it.
As most IFVS engines don’t eat APFSDS rounds in experience.
I say “IFV” because those class of vehicles had the engine front mounted–the Merkava is NOT an ifv for those who are reading this.