Hey. The report is currently still open. Everything for the next minor has already been locked in.
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Ahh okay, thanks for the reply! Hopefully it gets a look and we can finally have starstreak back to working order.
To be fair, that image does seem to be showing the area around the guidance fins, which likely is where a lot of electronics are concentrated.
I imagine the middle/rear section with the actual warhead is probably a lot thicker and more capable of penetrating armour.
yeah but if all of the electronis crumble then you will loose so much penetrative performance from the “penetrator” behind, would make much more sense to have an armoured tip
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I dont think so, its not much different from a ballistics cap on a APCBC shell. The cap would likely just fall apart and let the penetrator continue into the armour.
The Starstreak is commonly advertised as being able to be used as an light anti-armour weapon, against IFVs for example. I imagine it has at least some reasonable penetration capability, likely better than 50mm.
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The middle certainly looks a lot more rubustly made, I assume the orange inside component is the explosives?
big silver tube is warhead. The orange thing is PCB+Battery
Top is control and the tip, centre is the warhead, bottom is the laser receiver. Broadly.
Took me a while to find this, it has some cool info on how the Starstreak and its guidance works.
Interestingly, they show an armour plate which has been hit by a Starstreak.
He never describes the exact thickness, he just says “over an inch thick”. It could quite easily be 35-40mm thick and the Starstreak seems to have penetrated it pretty easily, punching a huge hole in it.
To me this says the 50mm figure is probably a bit of an understatement if it can penetrate that much armour seemingly quite easily.
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I doubt Gaijin will except this as a source though unfortunately.
Probably not sadly.
Thales also gives a similar example for the Marltet, saying it can penetrate “almost 6” of the shown blocks of steel.
Those must be around 100mm thick each, thats some pretty good pen for a small missile.
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Real shame there isnt a tandem warhead variant, i imagine it would really struggle against ERA in War Thunder. Better than nothing though for sure.
Tbh that doesn’t look thicker than 50mm to me.
I guess that is largely what LMM is for
They are referring to LMM
I thought it was Starstreak, my bad
Martels don’t have infinite fuel, but their burn time is so long that it may aswell have, as it in practice it hits the target before it burns out