There is evidence, and tbh I agree with it
Right so, I think its 40mm the whole way and this is why. First lets all agree on some stuff before hand.
The plate at this point is 40mm thick;
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And the plate is flat on the outside all the way until the rear section;
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So the section we can see here is past the front mud guard and is atleast the height of the full sized VARMA blocks so it isn’t the drivers section, yet it is flush with the armour/mounting;
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So how can the plate be thicker if this forward section is already flush with the armour/mount at the top hull section;
Illustrated;
So the centre section would need to be cut like this which I’m pretty sure isn’t the case;
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it can have both functions…
there’s a dust shroud over the top of the base plate yes. The middle section is thicker, with Aft and Forward sections of the plate being half thickness.
Seen here, you can see the aft baseplate is half of the thickness of the middle section which juts out. On the vertical cutaway we can see that’s one solid block there.
On this image however, we see it’s got a dust shroud and is half the thickness at the front.
Here we can see the base plate is divided into 4 segments -
We know the aft section is recessed. The middle section becomes thicker and the front section is half thickness, flush with the middle’s outside facing wall.
ASPRO-HMT has to be flush on its backing plate, which the Dust Shroud theory doesn’t support.
Looking at Warrior’s installation, we see the bricks are flush on the plate:
Therefore, it makes sense that the 2 middle plates are thicker as they are load bearing, provide additional protection to the fighting compartment and ASPRO sits flush on them, meaning they must be solid.
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Models are not a source sorry.
Aww :/
Would’ve been great if so.
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Fair points you make, but this photo shows the shoud taking up the full width with the plate facing outwards:
We see the bolt goes through the shroud which extend down, while the plate is ontop of the shroud. So effectively, the airgap + half width baseplate = 1 full width middle section.
There’s no space issues here, because the shroud is already acting as filler for where real full metal would be.
here’s a top down
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heres my take on the plates
here is where i think the backplste ends
here is the front of the plate where there is no gap bacause the backplate ended before
and here is the back proving theres a plate behind this front plate as there a gap
sry i dont know how to put spoilers
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Ok so here i go and throw mysel into this pit of fun.
We know the engine plate, and we know the first part of the plate has to be thinner due to front fender
How thicc is 2nd and 3rd part is a mystery
and cover just exist
In other words @Gunjob, the shroud fills in the missing space and reduces weight, but is effectively the same thickness as a full width middile sections.
In red we can see the airgap of the shroud being roughly the same width as the actual plate.
The steel plates thickness we can see in Orange.
Combining the orange and red thicknesses, you get what we see in blue, which is the width of the middle sections.
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Can we start marking pictures as spoilers now, im going to see challenger skirts in my nightmares with the amount of times ive seen the same pictures over and over.
lol i agree but do i mark as spoilers?
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Here, let me cure you
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Everytime I hear/read the words “dust cover” my mind goes back, kicking and screaming, to SA80/L98 Weapons Handling lessons “And do up the Dust Cover”
god help us all, we’ve gone insane.
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Devil man please I beg not that video.