Anybody know where Gaijin got the 7g max overload specification for the Brimstone missile?
They got it from the same place where they found the initial nerfs to HESH ammo. In their computer chairs.
edit: word choice and the grammar
The HESH one was a single Russian blog post page IIRC for the wrong calibre of HESH, the wrong shell not even used by the UK and generally fluffed up the HE calculations therein.
So yeah, pulled straight out of someone’s backside in Russi…ahem…Hungary.
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Funny thing, that blog post and associated docs literally no longer exists now and seems to have disappeared only a year and a few months post nerf. Literally pulled out from under someone’s backside indeed.
Are any rusian tanks use HESH in this game?
Take a wild guess…
=)
No, the Russian’s never had a preference for it
Much like regen steering, NERA, Chobham-type armour arrays, lofting ATGMs, top-attack munitions - all the stuff that really, really, tends to be borked in War Thunder.
If there isn’t a Soviet/RU equivalent it’ll inevitably be butchered. Or worse, compared to an inappropriate Soviet design - ‘Stinger and Mistral look like Igla’ nonsense…
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And that’s your answer
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I actually want to check this one. Does their “ceramic balls imbedded in steel” armor performs better than nera? Like per inch of thickness.
At a rough guess it would depend on the type of NERA you are comparing it to. Their composites were rolled out on T-64 and T-72 but they notably didn’t repeat it all that much on later models - instead going for the ERA route. If it were as good as they’d hoped vs. other forms of armour protection I think they would have rolled it out more widely.
I suspect it wasn’t as good as they’d hoped and maybe ERA was easier to implement (certainly in terms of up-armouring older stuff anyway). Their NERA technology is certainly nowhere near Western stuff because they’ve always gone for the exploding reactive route, rather than the somewhat more consistent NON-explosive solutions.
The problem was them looking at their own top-tier AT weaponry and assuming that the opponent would use the same method to attack Soviet tanks. They had a LOAD of HEAT ATGMs so put a lot of thought into defeating ATGMs that they were convinced that NATO would rely upon.
The trouble being, that the evil West tends to come up with different approaches and won’t necessarily stick to the plan you’ve laid out for them. ‘After all’, said the designers in the West; ‘why bother trying to work out how to circumvent all those ERA bricks when you can design something that goes up and lands on the top of the thing?’
TLDR - Don’t know. I suspect it wasn’t actually all that good because they didn’t repeat it.
BTW - Gotta laugh at the Gaijin White Knights flagging anything and everything today…
More that it’s impractical to manufacture en masse. Reflective plates like on 72B, 90A are cheaper.
Ceramic balls suspended in armor are also very inconsistent to manufacture, large portions of the armor would just have ceramic balls at the bottom and nothing above it. Reflective plates are cheaper, simpler and easier to consistently produce at good quality.
wow now ppl arent even talking about planes anymore in here
we have reached a new level of off-topic in the EF thread
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Never saw these (N)ERA blocks the EFT is covered with?
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Make it a researchable module like the chains on the Tiger turret and we’re good.
its probably going to be an event EF if i had to guess
Or the advent of premium/GE modules is coming upon us…
Brimestone trying to do its best Starstreak impersonation.
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