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

You mean this?
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No shit, that’s supposed to be NERA too? That doesn’t sound right. Well “right” as in: Inaccurate to IRL, not ingame.

The 30mm/400mm values, i’m fairly sure are just made up placeholders.

TES has nera here too
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I will ignore the fact that NERA block at the front (should be Chobham, just like those on the side and turret, but who cares :) ) have different armor values between 2F and TES, dispite beeing the same thing

Given that those thin little bricks of NERA (which i’m almost sure they’re ERA irl), have 30/400 and the giant blocks on TES is also 30/400, same as the thin plates on 2F is 30/400

It’s a really low effort placeholder value by Gaijin, who is gravely misunderstanding the brochure of Armor Shield R, which even funnier - Challengers don’t use. They use ASPRO-HMT.

It’s nuts, man. Even just looking at their thickness difference, I can’t see how Gaijin even remotely justifies this

2F

TES


It is variable, so there are even more flowers there.

IIRC these bricks are made from Chobham armor, not era.

I’ve not done a huge amount of research on the LFP armor, but I’ve got to assume a brick of that size, combined with the hulls armor must be a whole lot more protective than that. It’s a brick of Chobham right?

Yes, and i will show you something even funnier, gimme a sec

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You worry me lol

Chobham block


Romor A era blocks

2F at its finest, also shows how much Chobham is worth

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Yeaah, I saw this one coming LMAO
Jesus christ. Thats just lazy.

Well, who needs to model a giant block of armor to have armor, not me :)

And did you known TES has mine protection?
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It’s dreadful that these changes are less than a full days work for a single developer, yet have been in the game, dragging CR2 to the absolute bottom for years.
Insane.

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Makes sense, most of the kit on the TES is IED and mine defence

I also wonder if they will add functions to the jamming station on 2F and TES. While its main usage is to jam remote explosives, ingame it could disupt early ATGMs

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Also 2E got Exterior, engine, radiator and transmission model change, but armor and fuel tanks did not needed it.
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Noticed this, 2E definitely looks pretty cool now.
Just wish they’d give us functional changes lol

Once i first saw new booty i hated it, but over the dev serv it grew on me.

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