I don’t and no one trusts Wikipedia. I also didn’t necessarily say they didn’t I only implied that they may not have it since they have never been in direct combat ever. As the times they were in war was always support jobs way beyond the actual battlefield
The Japanese wiki has proven its reliability in my past comparisons with other sources. The information it provides closely aligns with my findings.
Consider this: must we wait for an actual war to recognize the significance of spall liners? Picture Japan facing a sudden attack; waiting until then to develop and upgrade all their armored fighting vehicles with spall liners would be too late. It only makes sense for them to have already developed and pre-installed this technology on their tanks, doesn’t it?
Moreover, examining the Komatsu LAV reveals what seems to be spall liners installed all around the vehicle, particularly behind its doors, strategically serving as shields during potential attacks.
Claiming that Japan lacks knowledge about spall liners simply because they haven’t experienced an active warzone seems nonsensical to me.
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its like that time a lot of people started to complain that the armor of the type 10 dosent make sense since its lighter than the type 90 and they have never been to a war etc etc basically excuses to say the type 10 shouldnt have as much armor
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Well we know that japan is using technologies that nobody else is using such as nanocrystal steel (which is still missing in wt).
ja.wiki is way more reliable than en.wiki on all things Japan-related
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Pretty sure the French have also employed lightweight composites similar to nanometric steel, Germany too, though for Germany most of that armor is on APC/IFVs.
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wich if im not wrong at least half of the weight compared to normal RHA was cut down due to the external armor and hull made out of this material
Idk about that but it should be around 4 times more effective then RHA iirc
ik that its insanely effective at deflecting rounds due to how the material works on high speed impacts
Speaking of which, when is someone going to bug report it
I doubt its THAT effective, signitficantly better than RHA yes but that much i doubt. There was a study about it from ~13 years ago. Its called “Ballistic performance of nanocrystalline and nanotwinned ultrafine crystal steel”
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IF anyone will try to bug report the armor again, here’s some articles on nanometric stuff which may or may not help.
41563_2021_1033_MOESM1_ESM.rar (400.4 KB) (PDF of scientific article mentioned by CIT since it’s behind a paywall)
This section right here
Until we get more info from JP MOD we can only speculate.
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i believe that its for the PUMA ifv if im not wrong
Here is one thing, not sure how effective it would be.
“While conducting shooting tests to improve and stabilize bullet resistance, large-sized shooting test boards necessary for equipment were prototyped. After comprehensive real-size testing, the grain-refined bulletproof steel plates were adopted for the Type 10 tank and the subsequently developed Type 16 maneuver combat vehicle.”
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Its nothing specific, just material science about a specific type of steel.
wouldn’t surprise me if the type 10’s a transformer, also does anyone have new info about that new japanese type 16 ifv?
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Knowing Gaijin they’ll want specific values but still useful nevertheless
speaking of type 16s. i do wonder if they have DM63 equivalent APFSDS. that way we could have a new type 16 at 10.0br
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new type 16 ifv? you mean the one that looks like a buffed up type 87 RCV?