Yeah, I was making the point that it might increase in weight even less than that and thus be even less noticeable by just weight. The fact that it has increased in weight just means that they probably added more armor than we think.
A pair of technicians at GDLS removed the side armor’s outer layer on an Abrams turret.
Two holes were punched into the DU matrix apparently, and when they inserted a probe to inspect the DU matrix it exploded and shot a jet of flame at one of the technicians.
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It wouldn’t bother me so much if they’d just come out and say 'our standards are whatever we want it to be for our purposes, single, double, triple, or otherwise."
Yak-141 has wooden radar and therefore gets a real radar because it totally would have.
Abrams tanks has weight simulators to train for the new upgrades- cannot confirm new armor packages so they obviously didn’t happen.
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This picture corroborates the Army weapon systems handbook 2013 which also showed a SEPV2 with the same lfp weight plate, as well as mentioning it has improved frontal and side protection.
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Shouldn’t the fuel tanks offer some KE protection in game? It would make the Abrams fuel tanks area almost impenetrable if implemented correctly. Smallpdf.com
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They should. Will Gaijin model that? No. They don’t model things based on reality. Just their feelings.
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In my experience the fuel tanks will usually blackhole one round if you’re particularly lucky on the Abrams. After that I believe they count as destroyed and don’t contribute to the damage model.
They definitely modelled that on every T tank, definitely on Turms, BVM and T-90M. How many times I’ve seen my long dart being soaked up by these when in the other hand Abrams fuel tanks just produce more spall…
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Its modeled on every vehicles, depending on remaining penetration of the round and length of the fuel tank fuel tanks can protect from rounds.
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People just want these standards to be applied equally
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Where does it say Turret side armor? It says outer side armor. It also doesn’t say where the DU armor package the welders punched through.
It could be removing turret side armor and punching through turret side or front.
Its not very clear.
Gaijin logic you know?
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I mean it would be very very on-brand for Gaijin to say that. Have a free like.
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That doesn’t actually mean much, what type of M1A1s where they?
Where they M1A1 Block IIs i.e. M1A2 prototypes, which by the way is most likely what they were? But they also could have been M1A1 HA prototypes, M1A1 HA+/HC/D…
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“…technicians removed the outer side armor…”
“A rad survey of the area confirmed minor contamination inside the armor cavity and on the floor adjacent to the right side of the turret armor cavity.”
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We have secondary sources talking about the M1A1 SA having DU in the hull at least, not sure what its production date was.
The SA is from the mids 2000s, that said can you link me this source as I personally haven’t found anything about this yet.
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its from june 18th 1993 so probably HC’s
It was one of Count_Trackula’s sources he found, not sure what thread but I’ll try and find it
Like I said it could be any of them. Block IIs were prior to the HC and the HA+ would also fit in that time frame.