Do we have confirmation regarding the presence of blowout panels in Challenger 3?
No, that’s one of the stupid things about the Challenger 3 “upgrade” in game is that it doesn’t have blowout panels but on the CLIP it did and because German engineers were involved it will likely have blowout panels, but Gaijin only has 2 priorities in this game; make Russian stuff superior to all Western stuff and make Britain a absolute sufferfeast for players, and when you have opinionated
Youtubers like @JustinPlaysTV saying that Britain is useless, slow and do no damage (mostly with WW2 tanks and early Cold War) then that makes people hate Britain which only makes it easier to add more terrible vehicles that are either not unique or Dead-On-Arrival
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I have no expectations for this tank, so few players play as Britain now. Top tier ground games you are lucky to see 3 players out the 20+ players. Why put the effort into making it good?
CR3 will continue to be a mess it still looks like a CR2 (must use the same armour then) we have no images details on whats contained in the add on armour or the total weight.
It will have trophy which is good but every other tank at top tier will also have an APS system. Negating the advantage. like the good old 4 second reload we once had.
Hopefully we will see DM-73 and ammo wont detonate anymore…blow out panels that work.
Mobility will be the same Gaijin do not understand how a gear box works and they only care about the HP number and not torque. Suspension in game is still modelled based on WW2/Cold war tanks.
Amazing optics and no .50 cal to shoot down helicopters
afaik there’s no photos of the CLIP roof, I don’t recall if there’s anything to confirm that there were blowout panels fitted as part of the testing.
There are images of the TD’s roof, and where the blowout panels should be there’s a solid panel bolted to the roof instead. Besides, it wouldn’t fix the issue with ammo detonating from a breech shot, as in-game the round would also penetrate the door separating the ammo from the fighting compartment, which causes it to kill the crew anyway.
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idk if someone told me a nation was bad in WT my first response wouldn’t be to hate that nation but to be apathetic towards it.
The mantlet also looks very similar to same one on the CR2E we have in game? Is that the case or is it a completly redesigned armour array?
I think there has definitely been an element of spite when modelling the CR2 they have done everything they have to miss interpret armour figures “Can stop any 30mm autocannon round” to “30mm KE protection”
Even when the CR2 2F/TES was announced on the dev stream the Russian dev server guy was making jokes when asked “Will this be the best protected tank in game”…He smirks and says no.
I know this is a CR3 thread but Gaijins previous practises have shown we are not going to get a tank that can compete with a Leopard 2A6 let alone the 2A8 the Germans will receive
This is just the result of their interpretation of STANAG testing, which im sure you’re aware many people have already tried to explain the ERA testing procedure for ASPRO-HMT.
I’m not sure what you mean about the mantlet, as far as i’m aware we don’t really know anything about what the TD protection looks like aside from a few seconds from Rhm’s marketing/announcement video
But does it have them IRL?
Interpretation vs fact is a hard one to stomach when every NERA armoured vehicle has their armour impacted as a result of “interpretation”
Yet Relikt can stop and absorb anything shot at it. If only NATO tank designers had though about sticking 2 plates of armour together…I digress this is why I have zero faith this tank will be anything more than a punching bag for the others.
And Leo 2 have a RCW on the blowout panels but than doesn’t mean it can’t use them
IAV 2025: Trophy now able to intercept drones - https://search.app/LEfmQML8Mt6DzJX68
Something interesting so Trophy APS can now intercept drones with a software update and some minor changes to hardware. Which potentially CR3 could get it ??
I hope only kamikaze drones, as just firing at an enemy drone flying by in-game would be quite annoying. And how it seems the CR3’s Trophy doesn’t have as many charges as the Merkava Mk4.M… I’m a bit concerned
I dont know how it will work for the CR3 eurothrophy.
But the 2a8 comes with autoreloader for the throphy charges
I don’t see any easy, quick and smooth way of it automatically reloading
To be fair, u didnt see any cally 3 with throphy yet in the first place.
That one rough mock up at the start of development is nothing to go by.
I forgot that it doesn’t exist yet, and the thing in game is what Gaijin should have called the CLIP, yes the “CR3 TD” and CLIP are not the same but Gaijin should have just added the CLIP as it would have been fine and still would be unique over its brethren
Thats wild, an autoloader for the APS system!
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My challengee knowledge doesnt go far enough with differentiazing the prototypes ko clue whatvthw CLIP was
If the radar can detect an fpv drone it should be able to detect a recon drone as well. I don’t see how this is that meaningful to gameplay yet unless you are flying your recon drones at ground level