Really interesting, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the information.
The Tank exists and the armor exists, I don’t think we need a photo. TAM 2IP is not a tank, it is armor for TAM tanks (mounted on a standard TAM). The armor was designed exclusively for the tank, so I don’t see the problem. In fact, you don’t have to add a new tank, IP (Improve Protection) should be a simple researchable armor mod to unlock, as it happens in almost all other vehicles in the game that have armor mods (+ protection, - mobility, with the option to activate or deactivate according to your interests).
As for ammunition, that would be a compromise, because TAM never used it, although there are many vehicles in the game in the same situation.
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As for the TAM barrel, it is approved to fire all standard 105mm ammunition used by NATO. The only difference with the M68A1 is that the M68A1 is lighter, has a muzzle brake (due to the recoil, being on a much lighter platform) and is adapted for the automatic loader. Otherwise, they are cannons derived from the British L7, which is still the 105mm standard in the West. To summarize, it’s not that M68A1 is better than M68. M68 was intended to be used on heavy tanks where there was no problem with recoil (M60, M1) so it was not necessary to worry about this. Let’s say that M900A1 was designed for M68A1 guns because all modern North American 105mm platforms are lightweight. Precisely, M900 uses a new sabot, penetrator, and propellant designed to have a higher muzzle velocity while mitigating the effect of recoil (many MGS ended up with fractures in their chassis due to this problem). The TAM chassis weighs twice as much as the M1128 chassis and is designed to operate without problems (it has gone 40 years without a crack and counting).
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To keep in mind, I will make some observations. There are many worse examples in the game of things not working irl, I’ll give you a very clear one: Rad90 has a turret, non-functional, on top of its chassis (they just threw it there). It was really just a concept, it never really existed. Gaijin’s answer is that the chassis existed and the turret existed on the Leopard 1A4. Since both parts were functional, they decided to do the remaining work by combining them into a single vehicle. is there a photo? Yes, but it doesn’t mean anything. There are too many examples like this, of things that never existed or functioned as such. They should also consider it when giving life to these vehicles. Greetings.