Challenger 1 MBT - Technical Data and Discussions

Nope, people have been asking for the l15a5 round for years for the chieftains due it being kinda needed but hey, only a 9.7 tank can have it according to gaijin. What makes it even more ironic is that it now has imaginary stats making it the second imaginary round the shir 2 has along side the l23 because a5 is du as you say and so should have more pen than the a3.

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7 tanks build in total

I would scratch out the non Hydrogas suspension ones

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Anyone gonna do a bug report on L15A5 and how its pen is to low

?? huh

I went ahead and converted the manual PDF to be searchable for words for everyone. I believe you have to open in adobe acrobat though. Doesn’t work in browser.

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Found some nice invisible armor that allows HE to overpressure the crew and darts to take out the commander…


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Feel free to make a report here, that would be greatly appreciated:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder?from=now%252Fd-6mo&to=now%252Fd

Have already, just gotta wait for it to be ignored :)

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/P3mQtCDYDkBd

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Who says HESH is useless?

What in the bloody hell?

Did your round bounce off the ground and impact that enemy tank’s underside?

Error 405 carried my shot

the other day i hit a spawn camping weasel with the chally DS 3 seperate times and it failed to damage it, let alone kill

Shrimply a krill issue

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Here’s one for the pile

Challenger 1 Gear Ratios incorrect

Also Affects Khalid and Shir 2

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I have noticed in this new update the challenger 1s got a power station while every other mbt doesnt have em yet -_-

I know at least the leos have had their batteries modeled for a while now, seems they’ve been hidden from ingame x-ray by gaijins spaghetti code. You can still see them in the assetviewer.

Edit: Not just hidden from x-ray, any reference to the power system’s collider has been removed from the leos damage model file. This seems to have occured last year between 2.40.0.58 and 2.44.0.21

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Oh well I didn’t know that tbh. Hey at least I know now that this isn’t a challenger only thing

You may maintain indignance, I had a look and it seems all mbt’s had the power system removed from their damage models about a year ago.

The collider is still there and it shows up in xray on the asset viewer, but there’s no link in the damage model file to say “thing go boom”.

So the chally is the only mbt that can catch fire from its power system -_-

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Well that’s sad I actually hoped I was wrong there ;(
The sad thing is idk if there is even a way for me to bug report it as idk how to prove that it wasn’t intended to get that or something.