Challenger 1 MBT - Technical Data and Discussions

Fire up the Bug Report cannon!

I saw something somewhere that the policy was not to simulate 1x zoom as you already have 3rd person view. TBH having 7x and 10x is often more useful than only 10x.

1x is not implemented, so only 10x is implemented, and 7x is the magnification of the auxiliary sight.

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Source; Jane’s Main Battle Tanks 2nd Edition, 1986

@_David_Bowie nice one I couldn’t find the mag of the gunner’s emergency sight, thank you.

i still need another source for the missing hesh, or does anyone have the manual where this pic is from?
XD
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this is for the mk 2 anyone has this document?
NVM found it, its form 1983 so no Figure 7A yet because before Mk.3

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wait what? its always nice when the search doesnt work
but apperantly some sort of splinter proof plates?
if anyone wants to help
https://de.scribd.com/doc/33227572/Tank-Combat-120-mm-GUN-Challenger-Part-2-Fighting-Systems

@Gunjob i might have found something for your spall liner collection


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so at least we should have a spall liner, around the breach right where the armour hole is



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You can see the splash sheet (1) in this pic. Looks like a thin sheet of kevlar-esque material, which can expand and compress vertically with the movement of the gun.

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When will the Challenger 2 get separate thermal vision for the commander???

CR2E (?) or CR3 only, it doesn’t have one in real life. The Commander only has a feed of the TOGS 2 TI sight mounted above the barrel in the TISH, same as the Gunner.

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Should this rack making it go boom like this

This was with 51 sabot and 1 hesh loaded. We repeated this with purely 52 sabot rounds and it still detonated, every time as well so it’s not inconsistent.

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Weird, i also tested this with Fire and i was fine

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What rack were you hitting

We are talking about the Cheek rack, arent we?

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If you will be up in like 2h we can check that. I need to see that to myself.

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Yeah

then my statemet remain. We did not blew up

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I’ll join u, may just be my bad luck.

So it seems like the cheek rack do explode (idk how when i tested it with fire it did not)
With that the bug report should be made, so it does not explode just like the rest of the darts

Magic. It is almost guaranteed to explod every time it’s hit and it only seems to be that rack. No idea but I may be some gaijins magic at work. At least this could be considered a separate bug to the original as it seems unintentional.