Chieftain with Romor.
Good premium vehicle right there, that could fill the spot that the Shot Kal Dalet did before being removed from sale.
Not good at making suggestions, but reckon that’s worth a shout
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Could be a first generation TOW or I-TOW, they’re 5in (127mm). In fact I’d favour this as being the most likely and the most useful comparison for tank armour, as it’s a ground-to-ground warhead and exactly what you would want ROMOR to defeat.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/tow-var.htm
EDIT: The BGM-71C I-TOW has approximately 630mm RHA penetration, which roughly matches the ROMOR-A table provided by @warhead_beast.
EDIT2: They may have been using TOW and false penetration data;
“While the original armor penetration estimates were 600 mm for BGM-71A/B and 700–800 mm for BGM-71C, a now declassified CIA study shows the CIA’s estimated penetration values against a vertical target are much lower—just 430 mm for the BGM-71A/B TOW and 630 mm for the BGM-71C Improved TOW.” - Wiki
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20131101092830/http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0001066239.pdf
Good, that might push things forward
Yep, do you want screenshots in addition?
GIve everything you have, the more the better
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Well Huston we have a problem:
The ERA values were not in Haynes I remembered wrong.
But I got 2 sources for the usage of varma 1 on Chally 1
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ROMOR-A & VARMA 1 in Granby, ROMOR-A & VARMA 3 in TELIC, ROMOR-A replaced by a Chobham block in ~2007.
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And 2008, TES with Rafael ERA
Yes this is the “thin blocks” being replaced by “big blocks” (with identical protection characteristics…)?
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The thing is, the TES is NERA/ERA sandwich. So you can take 2G NERA, slap ASPRO on it and you have TES
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Around an hour and im making the VARMA report. Just after that ROMOR-A
Nope, it uses its own passive armour system.
OH, so they gave up on the Dorchester blocks? Unexpected
We reverted back to 2G as you can see from any recent megaton appearances.
Yea, i think it is one of the 3 OES variants, the thing is, are they any different to 2G or no. At the current point it would be logical to assume it is, but at the same time its UK MoD so they are probably the same