Challenger 2 armor vs T-90M

Why is the T-90M armor has around 35 mm more protection at the NERA part of the hull compared to the challenger 2, while it not only uses the inferior rolled homogenous armor (compared to composite armor with NERA elements,) but when taking the solid materials, the challenger including composite armor had 325 mm of armor, while T-90M only 186 mm, and some other none solid material.

Can 305 mm of armor somehow provide only 515 mm while 186 mm provides around 550 mm?

Because Gaijin can’t model the CR2 armour at all and all soviet armour over performs

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Its around 1.6 times more solid armor but somehow weaker. Do you know if this was intentional?

No idea, but probably

Do you think that this can be used in a bug report?

Eh… Probably not, but CR2 has a whole host of reports already

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Do you think that the armor issue will be solved this year? People say that gaijin is forced to artificially nerf britain because of its players, but the win rate is ≈49%.

Hahaha…

Probably not…

After the BR changes, its situation will probably improve (at least for the 4 at 11.7) and that will be enough for Gaijin.

But my CR2 Overhaul post is ready to again

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Think its rather silly of them not to fix it, one of the only MBTs with so many theething issues that have been reported and not implemented.

Do you know if they have a motive?

winrates. If Gaijin started correcting all armor values on non russian tank designs every groundmatch would be a very one sided situation.

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I’m not sure, all i know is that the snail seems to take Soviet or Russian at face value and sometimes don’t question it, but NATO needs uber deep research and a bakers dozen of evidence or suppoorting examples for it to be accepted, and sometimes even then its not even implemented. Regardless of all the evidance they still chose to make blow out panels not work anymore, even though it has infact been proven to work just fine.

I choose not to rant about the imaginary KH38MT, its existance beyond a prototype is dubious at best.

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Yeah… Its crazy the essays needed to report minor issues and yet ive seen a few soviet reports get passed based upon “trust me bro”

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I’m not quesiton about Gaijin wishdom in Soviet steel unless “Top Secret” documents or blue prints shows up again in forum.

Based on my very accurate calculations, the composite (in game) of the T-90M is a whooping ~5x stronger than the composite in the challenger.

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T-90M gets around 9.74 mm RHAe/mm per 1 mm of its air and rubber. These numbers are very high, and very situational. Those numbers shouldnt be as good when against modern apfsds. Challengers composite is 2.2 mm RHAe/mm, meaning, the air and rubber in T-90M are highly buffed, while, the composite in Challenger is weak.

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Is it possible to do something with this information?

Probably not.

It called Incompetence
which is what Gaijin is.

Most likely yeah, but they seem to be very slightly favoring Russian tech from time to time. I personally used to believe in bias but I realize that it’s stupid now, it goes both ways. Newest example I can think of is M1A1 now being 11.3 while a lot of other, arguably worse MBTs were moved up. The T90M and BVM’s performance at top tier isn’t great, but KH38MT shouldn’t really exist in game, and the stinger should be pulling 20Gs. Lastly, (I’m quite sure) blowout panels do work with explosions not just fires.