I know irl the A10 can use uranium ammo/ casings but it only says armored targets and ground targets, I guess we will never know.
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If it did it would specify the specific type of ammo in the belt. Like Germany’s 20mm and 30mm Minengeschoß
The APCR round is DU.
idk
but that doesnt change the fact that it has almost the same flat pen as kugelblitz
It has the same flat pen as the Kugelblitz but it has significantly better angle pen, precisely because it is DU.
Penetration graphs
I’ve created some graphs in Desmos to show the calculated penetration of both the A-10’s HVAP and the Kugelblitz’s HVAP projectiles at different angles and distances.
0 meters.
500 meters.
1000 meters.
Not only does the HVAP round from the A-10 have substantially better performance against sloped armor, it also loses penetration over distance much slower (identifiable by the ever increasing gap in 0° penetration).
Disclaimer: the penetration of the Kugelblitz’s HVAP round might not perfectly match what the stat card states at 30°. This is due to a bug where the stat card for HVAP/APCR utilizes the projectile’s diameter to calculate the diameter to armor thickness ratio, while the actual penetration value utilizes the core’s caliber. The values I show in these graphs utilize the core caliber, so they are accurate to the actual achievable penetration.
It’s junk, so I suppose it doesn’t have any DU. Gaijin is super allergic to DU nowadays on any US plane or tank.
But the SU25 has some lolpen stalinium rounds that take care of Leopards with 1-2 bursts, max 30 rounds.
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The HVAP round is DU.
You know the a10s rounds have more pen right
its useless but you complaining about a gun not killing tanks that it could never kill IRL
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The leopard 2’s would be extremely vunerable to DU rounds due to the light side and tol armors
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Not really. The advantage of DU over W is that DU is a free waste product.
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And that it is its own incendiary, there is a reason why it is listed as an API round, not APCR despite not having any form of pyrotechnic mix.
The combat mix’ would normally be the PGU-14/B API Armor round (with DU) in a 4:1 mix with PGU-13/B HEI, mostly because A-10s aren’t usually assigned to hit smushy target.
As to what Gaijin actually puts in the thing…
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It really seems like a lot of you think that DU is some God power like material that should pen 800mm+ of armor (ps, it doesn’t)
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DU round for a10 is not HVAP, way too much pen lost over short ranges. If it is it makes no sense for it to be equal to the Kugelblitz penetration, mk103s barrels are short compared to the a10s car long cannon, and the ammo would be drastically different. a10a Use to have 106mm pen, when it first came out, but they nerfed it to 79, never said why either.
The Mk 103 has also longer 30x184mmB Rheinmetall ammo. And it went down, as they implemented penetration calculation for all APCR/HVAP rounds.
And penetration for those rounds is mainly the core and velocity, you will see that while the H-Pzgr. Has only 2mm less, it is also worse at angles.
It is a DU core surrounded by an aluminium jacket.
It is APCR/HVAP. The only difference between it and other APCR rounds is the fact it uses a DU core, rather than tungsten carbide.
And it isn’t. Not only is the angle pen of the GAU-8 far superior, it also has less pen loss over distance.
Because 106 mm was with a tungsten carbide core, and now the A-10 and LAV use a specific calculator meant for DU core, giving worse flat pen but much better angle pen.
obviously you don’t know how strong D.U is.
I’m confused, does it have DU or no? If it does, is it accurately portrayed in game?
Flat and angled penetration are specifically calculated differently from normal APCR rounds due to the DU core. This also applies to the LAV with its 25 mm cannon.
Whether the difference is accurately modelled or not, I can’t really answer.
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