I really need to get round to that Emirati Scorpion suggestion I’ve been researching for, a British Army Scorpion would be like 4.0 or something given the 80mm of pen on the HESH and comically low velocity, for a so called direct fire gun. where as an Emirati Scorpion is pretty much identical to a later British one execpt for the replacement of the day sight with a TLS from the Chieftain, thus be much more suited to an era appropriate BR (6.7 or so).
Unfortunately not a massive amount of information.
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is the jaguar gr.1 supposed to detect launches from an OSA? i remember it could detect tunguska launches but it doesn’t seem to work on the osa
The Scimitar isn’t the only one, Fox has this issue too.
Hmmm, gee, I wonder, out of the literal manufacture’s brochure or some random bloke, what would I use as a reliable, accurate source?
Apparently this question is too difficult for Gaijin to answer.
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I’m surprised its taken this long to add a CVR(T)
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did you ever make that report?
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Yes
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got the link for it?
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No as its an internal report. Here are all the reports we have for Phimat;
[tornado_f3][tornado_adv][tornado_f3_late] Missing Phimat Chaff pod on wing pylons
[tornado_f3_late][tornado_f3][tornado_adv] Missing Phimat Chaff Pod
[harrier_gr7] Missing Phimat Chaff pod
[buccaneer_s2b] Missing Phimat Chaff Pod
[harrier_gr3] Missing Phimat Chaff Pod
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oh, right
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Fine.
Nothing to write home about, but the FLIR is a great tool. Not been able to play it the last 2 days whilst it’s been at 13.0 and CBA to evade the AMRAAM slingers in it.
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ah, had a feeling that might be the case, how are the brimstones in sim?
Not unlocked them yet. But probably won’t use them often. Not a.lot of reason to do so. ePaveways and PGMs are just more effective
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Idk if you want a low tier HESH slinger, HESH is still in a state of almost always a waste of time. And probably show not much sign of changing because with the new update ammunition stat cards have a new item added.
“Armor penetration by high-energy action”
This means how much penetration you have with raw HE power. It does highlight how useless HESH is of course because these numbers are not indicative of how useless your rounds are as HE weapons at all. To illustrate:
The Ammunition details between 155mm M1 and 165mm L33A1. Note the nearly double amount of HE included in L33A1 and that L33A1 does allegedly have a greater amount of penetration “by high energy action”
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The issue: This penetration does not kick in unless you’re really really up against the plate, whereas any other HE type can overpressure via HE from a serious distance.
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155mm M1 overpressure killing via HE hitting the roof at a serious distance:
165mm L33A1 (with greater penetration in HE terms and nearly double the HE quantity) doing no damage at the same spot:
In fact look how far down you have to go for HESH to do any kind of HE damage:
You have to be essentially touching the roof to do any kind of HE damage.
And in spite of this information, rounds like HEAT and APHE don’t seem to have the same issue, they will overpressure via HEAT at fairly impressive distances considering their purpose and HE quantity.
Examples here are 122mm HEAT-FS and 125mm HEAT-FS.
Now these aren’t quite the same distances as with 155mm M1 but considering these are HEAT type rounds with less than 3kg of TNTe it is a bit impressive.
Or like here with KV-1 SAP and 120mm L31, the latter of which has much more HE and “energy penetration” but clearly cannot HE kill at the same range.
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Does the fact that the launcher is stabilised not also quite clearly indicate it is intended to be able to fire on the move?
maybe im missing something, but gaijin seems to be avoiding the obvious conclusion that it can fire on the move
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And you’d be right.
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https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/4SntEY3mo94M
Made a bug report for the Conqueror missing its lower front plate applique armour, hopefully gaijin consider it :)
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https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/qsZnz6HPouul
And another bug report for the FV4005s top speed, hopefully with enough sources this time.
If anyone has an actual photo of the TankFest Show Guide 2024 front page and would like to send it, that would be amazing as I could only find a digital copy :)
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Well, if they do accept it, at least you’ll survive long enough to be depressed by the gun.
Is it just me, or does the mantlet looks off?