Funnily thing is that a lot of nation’s don’t even get High Explosive rounds in top tier, so even if 120mm HE was effective, you probably don’t even have it as an option
Meanwhile all 125mm get HE as far as i’m aware and they can actually kill the BMPT by shooting the gunner optics i think, problem being they won’t usually face that :D
no you can’t lol, i have the merkava with 65mm he penetration and chinese HE, they can’t even damage the barrels with direct hit, is absolute a busted tank, almost unkillable
Well, from what I remember, Britain, Germany, Italy, and Israel have good enough HE / HESH.
which one is that?
What isn’t insane here ?
I have researched it for weeks and didn’t even buy it lmao.
Merkava Mk.4s
(Albeit 65mm of pen that he’s referencing to is its kinetic penetration. It’s raw HE penetration is ~37mm or so iirc)
Maliciously loads HE in my VT4A1.
I’ve tried it with HESH and never really seen any good results from it but maybe it’s because it was the 105mm, only checked with 120mm in protection analysis as i don’t have any tanks that can use that
Eitherway, didn’t see any good spots using that either
as for HE, it depends what you mean by “good”
They all have pretty much the same pen of 36-37mm which i don’t see any methods to kill the BMPTs besides disabling the turret and finishing it off with a APFSDS
HE is good to kill the gun / atgm so the bmpt cant fire back at you
does not work, no HE in game can cause damage to both barrels, if you shoot atgm launcher it get repaired in like 8 seconds
Starstreak literally phases through the turret of the BMPT in game
The round he mentioned can be found on Merkava 3’s Merkava 4 uses different type of HE shell.
Stearstreak phases through everything at times, that really isn’t a good reference.
yeah, might work in close quarters assuming they don’t instantly spray your barrel
But the velocity of those shells make it somewhat useless once there’s any range involved
Seems rather situational, you’d only load HE after you’ve spotted them as i assume most people would be having HEATFS or APFSDS loaded as their main round, so you’d have to reload a different round and either be in cover or not spotted by them in the first place, worse off if they are moving + some distance between
I’ve had CV 90 MKIV spikes strike BMPT barrel dead on and only turn it yellow (and only the barrel it struck), who is out here getting entire turret disables with anything that isn’t BESH?
ok still i am gonna try maybe things have changed. still worth trying
at a long distance they are not a big issue if you have a good reverse speed and smok, in close range i will never aim for the turret at all. my instincs always goes for driver spot or side front track / lfp
