Yeah i noticed that too their is also cables on each side of the turret could be for possibly the LWS are APS Radar ??
Are these the same APS that the Black Night had?
Why is our breach still huge. Why cant we design another gun or barrel or whatever that leaves a small breach/mantlet.
I think we are swapping to Trophy
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Im not totally convinced that is an IRL issue. Gaijin has a lot still to fix with the CR2/CR3 mantlets
Yeh but the trophy is worse? The Iron Fist uses an Explosive Projectile Interceptor which can stop Things even as far as Kinetic and ATGMs. Ive seen the Trophy uses explosively formed penetrator/self-forging fragment (like a shotgun) which certainly cannot stop Kinetic/APFSDS.
Because it is not an easy spot to aim irl. Leopard 2 advanced’s one are rare exception.
And Iron Fist is not combat proven. That’s maybe why.
Would need a complete redesign of the turret.
Thats what uk didnt want to.
Uk is essentialy now using same breach and gunnas leopards now.
But the turret restricts the mantler since they want to be able to upgrade their current challys as well if necesary if i remember right
Because in real life the mantlet isn’t a signficiant weak spot like it is in war thunder.
Breaches in WT are artificially nerfed in order to “balance” top tier and keep the skill requirement lower. For example, the Leopard 2’s mantlet is partially made of STRUCTURAL steel instead of rolled steel, making it signficantly weaker than it should be. The Leclerc, Challenger, Type 10, Abrams etc… mantlet’s are also weaker than they should be, often significantly.
The British already had a small mantlet design for the Challenger 1, however, it was clearly not a large detriment to move to a larger mantlet for the Challenger 2.
They don’t want top tier tanks to be too effective hull down, which is understandable, but not realistic.
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From what we’ve heard CR2s rotor is solid titanium with the gun breech sitting right behind it. The side wedges of the mantle appear to be protected by Chobham. Damaged one from Ukraine shows it has a similar setup to the turret face after the cosmetic skin got blown off. Hollow in war thunder of course but if the Russians think it’s a weak spot power to them lol.
Yet another article today stating the Challenger 3 has a more powerful engine.
I know its not a primary source, but it seems most new articles mention it.
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depends on where its coming from, if army recognition has an earlier article saying that it has an improved engine and this is based on that, then nothing has changed
my beautiful beautiful babies, P3 and P4
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lemme tell you a secret, most of the unofficial news articles build on each other. Because they dont have offical information or interviews they just copy paste each other like parrots.
Meaning that they just continously repeat the mistakes of each other as well
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and the only proof it doesn’t was a now ex MP who was quite bad
So we will see when it is done
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You could try asking RBSL, I doubt it’s classified.
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Lets just say i have nothing on paper right now
Here is a question for this forum, does the CR3 TD’s configuration exist from what we currently know? I know with certain the one in game has it’s supposed to get the 1500hp engine and transmission, the LWS is supposed to come with with Trophy APS and the armour is worse than the CR2’s
well yes it was the first functional tech demonstrator shown of. but it realy mostly only was the implementation of the gun until that points
not proven, that is the whole point whey it doesnt have it
only saw the mock up of that until now, not sure when we will see a working one.
armor wise its hard to say since it propably is all classified and gajin just doesnt like that and as a result does itself hard to implement it.
That being said the finished versions at least should get their spall liners back
The question I want to know is will the new CR3 armour negate the need for the OES/TES armour packages to be added to the tank prior to deployment?
This would be the only justification not to uprate the power output for CR3.
If it will still be required to operate with TES/OES kits then it is nothing short of idioacy using the same underpowered power pack.