LOS = Vert/(cosine(angle))
Ohh i see thanks, well it dosn’t change the facts that the APFSDS-T in war thunder pen less that it should right?
Depends on what you mean by “should” . There are several different standards of testing penetration IRL and what actually counts as having penetrated (or perforated).
So for example lets say one countrys standard is that at least 1/4 of the dart should still be left and still flying after the armor for it to count as a penetration while another country counts penetration as soon as even a tiny fraction of the dart goes through the armor. Then those countries are going to take the same ammo and list different penetration values just based on what they count as “having penetrated”.
in general though there are likely a lot of small physics effects that occur at those speeds that Gaijin can’t reasonably emulate (like the Leiden frost effect, adiabatic sheer, dart breaking up into smaller pieces, armor spaces with negative Poisson’s ratio numbers, etc), so they do an approximation based on the material of the dart, the speed of the dart and it’s shape, features and dimensions.
hm i see that pretty hard this, anyways i have provided the required doc now i’ll see how the support answer
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even more simple, for a 60° you just multiply by 2, since sin(π/6) = 0.5 (I know π/6 rad is 30°, but one has to keep in mind that the standard for angles when talking about tank armor is from the vertical, so 0° angled armor = 90° angle in trigonometry, and 60° when using that same standard is 30°)
In game for Jag’s APFSDS at 1500m that would give 78/sin(π/6) = 78/0.5 = 156mm, which is more than 140mm (a picture was found with a LOS penetration of 150mm)
156 stock round and still complaining? Fr*nch is strong in this one.