If what you’ve said is true and the evidence has been provided to Gaijin, I look forward to improved Abrams armour.
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They gave us faster reload, I’m trying not to be one shot. The problem is the Abrams in real life have a higher survival rate than in game because of its armor. Gajin is ignoring this.
Fix our ARMOR!
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None of this invalidates my hypotheses.
I point out that, the rhetoric of the justification given by McVey hinges upon it.
It’s a shock it didn’t win. America only makes the best tanks, is the implication, this is clearly a temporary aberration which is immediately rectified.
The evidence of those trials is it’s not the best and not even purely on armour grounds.
The US messed up quite badly in those trials, amongst other export trials for various reasons.
It’s a tank like any other, some strengths and weaknesses, suitable for some situations and not others. Clearly not suitable for Sweden, even if perhaps due to cost differences compared to refurbished 2A5’s at a mark down.
So now it’s corporate greed and incompetence?
They just didn’t think it possible someone would ever want a tank without radioactive armour, or that it’s something worth thinking about? Or that export could be blocked of such, presumably lucrative, armour?
I find the idea that depleted uranium is so important to be quite flimsy, also the idea that they’re caught so off-guard and unprepared that they can’t figure out a decent alternative, to be similarly weak.
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I think the anecdote about M1A1 up armouring is about how the depleted uranium is just somewhat better and not like a revolutionary improvement. Seems like it’s more to do with making efficient use of the existing volume. Or just having lots of the material around anyway.
Granted, I’m sure more advanced composites likely make better use of it. M1A1HA was early days with it.
I think it’s also about being scared that maybe 2A46 could deal serious damage, even though I think intelligence services knew the ammunition available wasn’t top of the line.
Also the US I suppose were anxious not to lose any soldiers, so they tried to ensure everything was as armoured as possible.
I think it speaks a little to how the M1A1 isn’t exactly massively well protected generally.
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That’s fair. Especially considering there were many different programs to improve M1A1 protection, aside from DU inserts. There were parallel advancements in ceramic armor and laminate techniques.
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We can have a WW2 only mode then thanks
I will never understand why you all keep typing this year after year there will never be a " ww2 mode "
the stupid test trials didnt test the m1a1 sep, m1a1 aim or any tank upgraded after 1998. You people are delusional.
We want the realisim
Remove the realism from the game because this game is not realistic!!!
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M1A1 HA/HC should also have better hull front armor, idk how 30.34% increased weight for the hull front armor between the M1A1 HA/HC and the M1A1 translates to nothing in game.
Talking about the M1 Abrams from 1989 means the M1A1 HA which is basically the M1A1 HC.
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what is this from?
THE IMPACT OF ARMOR ON THE DESIGN, UTILIZATION AND SURVIVABILITY OF GROUND VEHICLES: THE HISTORY OF ARMOR DEVELOPMENT AND USE by Chun Hong Kelvin Yap, circa September 2012.
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it doesn’t matter what you want, gaijin doesn’t care about " realism , they only want $$$ "
And they are getting it
Are they?
M1A1HC Click-Bait being the bestseller for some time, so yeah.
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Yep
well its obvious that 5 sec reload help being “not” one shotted /s
Another smert moment of gajooble
just so they dont have to fix stuff lmao
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You can also only really benefit from the reload if people leave you alone, because one shot to the breach of an Abrams usually takes out both the loader and commander.
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