You are a skill issue. The ERA on Russian tanks underpreforms.
You can kill a T90A on the side with a Turm III (8.3) firing HEAT-FS, hitting every Kontact-5 plate, still go through, hit the ammo, and boom.
Also, Relict is missing about 100mm KE protection, Kontact-5 40mm KE protection.
There has never been a time where I hit Russian ammo unless it’s orange or something, when it doesn’t explode. Guess what? German ammo has a long history in game of not exploding after taking direct hits and ruining the ammo.
Also:
Yes, Russia developed very advanced helicopters irl, no wonder they’re in game? They’re also missing a lot of weapons they get irl, including IR fire and forget weapons ;)
Russian CAS wasn’t great until the advent of the Su-34/30 coming to the game.
For literal years, the USA owned 90% of the CAS gameplay.
Your tanks are fine, your planes are fine, your ships are honestly broken af.
Sure, you don’t have the best spaa, but you have the best tank destroyer spaa in game, by a very very wide margin.
You have the LAV-AD which is super broken.
Let’s not forget the Vikhir is under preforming in pen. It’s listed as 1000mm RHA on the manufacturer website… in game it was set to 800mm RHA for balance years ago, then they buffed the hellfires from 1000mm RHA → 1200mm RHA.
you saying this shows an incredible lack of understanding as to the effectiveness of ERA
IRL ERA degrades the penetration instead of just offering a flat armor equivalent how it is modeled in game causes it to significantly overpreform as it completely stops rounds that it should not, even if struck at an optimal angle for the ERA a 250mm pen dart should retain enough penetration to pierce the thin side armor of the tank however in game it cant
the only case where it could be said to be under preforming is against ammo with enough residual pen that it doesnt matter
no, the in game M1A2 armor values are based the swedish trials export package which was explicitly less effective than the domestic armor and did not even contain DU
Lmao nice assumption. Yes I know how ERA works. Yes I agree it CAN be odd sometimes, but not usually.
You don’t understand:
Relict is too new to have a direct counterpart. Same with Monolith.
People often hit 5-6 plates of ERA and then wonder why they didn’t do mass damage. say, you hit the side bag era of a T-90M, it’s what? 40-60mm? Per plate. You hit 3 plates, then hit the underlying 250mm ERA large plate, which degrades the rounds far more now. So your 628mm pen dart has degraded quite a lot. Now, consider road wheels, sprockets, drive wheels etc, if you hit any of those it can degrade it even more between 20-100mm, then considering angle of all those objects may make the dart go off course slightly. Then the 80mm RHA side armor, which again, will likely be pierced by a 628mm pen round, but if it’s off course, and severely degraded, it may not have enough to go through (depending on the angle) of the 80mm RHA, or it does go through and doesn’t do much damage.
when they rate the side bags as degrading penetration by 60-70 percent they include the plate underneath, so I dont know what you are talking about here
IIRC the round russia normally uses to test ERA is 3bm42 so you degrade its penetration by that 60-70 percent and it is still enough to pen the side armor
you are just wrong then, the in game M1A2 lines up pretty much exactly with the data we have from the swedish trials which is known to be significantly worse than the domestic armor package
abrams LFP eats rounds way less often than many other vehicles
Buddy you’re literally wasting your time and energy arguing with these people, they literally attack the person not the argument which is common with these Russian mains.
These issues are pretty rare and they definitely not happening again with the recent basket addition that literally makes the shells spall more they hit the engine, so now you got a handicapped tank that can’t shoot back nor move around.
Never seen a single one these mains insult other people’s mother and calling him names, it’s Russian mains 99% of the time.
The thing is , it happen to every tank , it is gaijin fault. That literally nothing gotta do with russian biased. They unable to code their game to give the playerbase consistent gaming experience across the board. Still don’t understand why Russian biased this Russian biased that. If you really want them to address all of these issue instead of “Here a new rank 8 80$ premium jet/tank , enjoy”. Then you have to vote with your wallet
Not joining the american main on their mid ass crusade against “russian biased”. USSR and US are not the only nation btw
