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

Thankyou, I will now proceed to use this until it is fixed lol.

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i think he means the part about it being aluminium

For what the thickness? That was discussed here and it was discovered to be correct or do you mean the materials?

Oh, yeah. No actual source on that that I’ve seen.
Actually, except this


but it doesn’t actually give any evidence other than stating it.

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the material, for the thickness we had legwolfs bug reports

For now I’ll agree with the thickness as it seems you are correct, however someone posted a picture a few days ago of an even better look of the plate and it showed it being thicker in the centre. I don’t know if this is the mud guard still but we may want to have another look at it.

For the material it should still be rha. But then again with the new thickness in the centre may show that it is aluminium as it accounts for the missing weight…

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i mean we still have the question if it would only be the thickness in game why are the support braces then not extending more inward under the top cover?
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So, is the challenger 2 good now?

no

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Yup, this is the one.

it actually wont matter trying to prove it may be thicker in the center when we now have to disprove its aluminium on top of the aspro-h mess

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The “remodel” basically didnt come to live lol. its still the old damage model.

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someone needs to fire the unpaid intern :v

I mean if you look bellow the Aspro you’ll notice it’s reverted back to its old “composite” from the changed 40+60mm plate it had before…. It’s went back in a lot of places so I think this was what they were gonna go for but forgot to change it back…

Well… Only one thing for it. Time for a Tsunami of bug reports.

Just make sure:

  1. they cover 1 topic/part only
  2. if you plan on submitting multiple, share them after you’ve created them all and avoid spamming the almighty Gunjob.

I’ll try and make sure the bug list is up to date. Though I do need to do a bit of an overhaul on the layout at somepoint.

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This appears to be the same dust cover. You see the bolts on top are holding to the actual plate underneath (likely with L brackets). This does show some sort of thinner backer plate but this could just be part of the mounting system.

this would make little sense mechanically, because you then have a massive air gab to the actual plate

It makes much sense because they don’t mount the thicker plate directly to the tank. There is a thin plate which is mounted to the tank perhaps only above the tracks, not clear, then seemingly a space and the thicker “backing” plate, all of this capped with a dust cover. I’m looking for a higher res image, but see my sketch below.

Much better image, you can see the edges of the various parts:

the thing is, this is supposed to be ridged and withstand blasts as well as direct kinetic impacts, mounting it the way you drew would mean the forward plate is only held in place by the blue part which would make it increadibly unstable