[ACTUAL numbers, from model without X] + [X improvement] = [Make a higher guesstimate, then, by an amount plausible for a government to bother spending money on a new variant and tooling etc, like +10% probably at least]
Only one guesstimation instead of two stacking, is better than I thought. Cool!
This is called FMS armour package. AUS M1 AIM got it, Saudi M1A2 got it and now polish M1A1 FEP got it and M1A2 SEP V3 will get it. Funny enough, polish M1A1 FEP with this FMS armour package have potentially better protection that M1A2 SEPv2 with "DU in turret " we have in game.
I didn’t actually see any photo in the references that were from War Thunder. One looks like a model in blender and some pictures are just drawn art like the one of the M1A1 by Vincent Wai.
I asked Bowie about this about a year ago and this is their official reasoning. It’s a 3rd party source hosted on .mil/gov and therefore not reliable.
I don’t agree with it but it’s what’s they said and I’m sure they use sources worse than this for some tanks.
Odin is weird in that they tend to scrape a lot of things from random places.
I have on occasion stumbled across descriptions of weapons which were clearly lifted from Wikipedia and they didn’t even bother to scrub the now dead annotations.
And some of it has been removed but as mentioned they have on multiple occasions ripped bits from WT’s wiki for weapons.
Like if they don’t have something you can email them and request they add it.
To request equipment be added to the WEG, email the TRADOC G-2 OE & Threat Analysis Directorate WEG Analyst Richard Garcia at @@@@@
They also provide an incomplete list of sources used.
WEG Sources
The following is a sample list of the different sources used to create Worldwide Equipment Guided (WEG) sheets and is not a comprehensive list:
As much as I would love to use some of their stuff for bug reports I can’t say it’s not dissimilar to quoting wikipedja or actually guarantee that said data actually came from the government and wasn’t the result of an employee googling.