Aaahh too many images, I don’t know what I’m looking at.
At a challenger 2
What ever happened to the Challenger 2’s side armour being 50mm?
It’s quite strange that the rear armour is 50mm while the side is only 38mm.
I remember someone measured it irl and it came to 50mm, did that get ignored or proven false?
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The V9 prototype is in a public place, I could head there with a tape measure at the weekend…
something something were looking into it
How?
If it’s currently 510 and is missing a 50mm plate at 60°…
Add that 50mm plate / cos (60°) and you get +100mm, so 510 + 100 = 620, wouldn’t it be the case?
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It has been reported. It is in the “will be looked at someday”
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Gaijin have a spreadsheet with what the protection values should be. If an angled 50mm plate is added that increases the protection above what they want, they’ll nerf the composite so it stays in line with their values
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That means the composite is over performing… Because gaijin didnt make up that number, I forgot the source but it was correct to that source
That sheet of theirs is absurd and gladfully subject to change.
I mean, that sheet is the one that states that SEPv2 has the same armor as M1 and that 2A7V has worse armor than the 122s.
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when did they post this doc?
I see! So the 510mm value is actually accurate?
As far as I remember, 500mm was the very minimum requirement of the design, but I didn’t think the production model went on with the bare minimum values required.
That sheet also doesn’t have values for the protection of the LFP composite block and it’s been that way for at least a year and a half. Unless the addition of the plate is accompanied with something saying the hull armour is currently underperforming, they’ll stick to the 510/525mm
Like a week or 2 ago
Attached in a response to a 2A7V bug report
well its the british we’re talking about, and gaijin, they’ll stick to prerequisites instead of potentials. I’m talking both of them lol
I also kinda love how the sheet states it’s 520mm KE (without additional plates), yet, ingame, we get;
Challenger 2E’s right side: 495
Challenger 2E’s left side: 530
Challenger 2’s right skde: 510
Challenger 2’s left skde: 540
And similar thing with Challenger 3, although I am not on PC right now and can’t remember the exact values hahah.
I believe Challenger 3’s armor was like 2E’s; 495 on the right side and 520-530 on the left side.
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Just as I remembered, yay! Thanks for the screenies hahah.
See, like… why is the right side weaker than the left side? It doesn’t even reach 500mm when it supposedly should be 520!
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