Challenger 2 MBT - Technical data and Discussion (Part 1)

no im talking about literal holes in the composite of the turret cheecks. its also strange how every other tank composite looks and has no holes but the challenger is somewhat different.

I will, don’t worry lol
I didn’t forfeit my afternoon for Gaijin, for it to sit on the dusty Challenger 2 shelf

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Yes please, but also focusing on just the issue, whats wrong and whats to correct + evidence. Right now it reads as a response to the blog or a “bug report” of the blog itself. Irrespective of the blog, if these are issues or not, they should each be their own topic, addressing specifically the matter at hand and attached with the relevant sources.

Its not all required immediately and I appreciate feelings are high and in the moment, but it may be best to just focus on one at a time. Huge reports like this are only likely to cause more confusion.

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Okay no worries man. I’ll get to that now and ping them on to you when i’m done. Shouldn’t take too long :)
Appreciate your help, Smin

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Gajins sources when it comes to chally 2

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Silly question perhaps but why is the “Composite screen” backing onto the ASPRO-HMT plates in the armor view half the size of it’s actual dimensions?

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See right at the top? it’s exactly half of the actual dimensions of the plate. If this is steel, surely the entire plate should be armor?

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That was the change they did with last update, because our everybody’s favourite Trixxter was of the oppinon that it is a 40mm “Dust Cover” so he single handedly pushed the change with a bit of “pixelcounting”
and of course to prove him wrong we need sources… a thing that he didnt need

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Alright well…Time to add it to the report list lol

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@DevilO6 has basically analized everything about the sideskirts and came to the conclusion that there are multiple thicknesses of side plates and you need the thicker one for mounting the ERA

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OH GOD NOT THAT AGAIN, im going to sleep

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@DevilO6 have you got any good clean photos of a TES baseplate? No care for what thickness, just with the ERA attached or the brackets

Lemme look around.

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you absolute legend, regardless of what you dig up haha

maybe these’ll do the trick just nicely:


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I stole them from you lmao


Here is how that type of plate looks with VARNA
You can quite clearly see the thickness difference between the plate covering the side of the engine deck and the one where the ERA is mounted
Also the same bit from up close now with ERA

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Cheers. I’m more or less just trying to refuse this spacial anomoly that’s happening where only half our base plate is a solid object

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One max two pics

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THE PIXEL MEASURE
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