The best part is that DM53 in the game is in fact, underperforming;
The tip is part of the penetrator itself as seen on this DM63;
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You’re truly a special breed.
The LoS angle is give or take ~67.1, APFSDS don’t drop much over distance anyhow. However shots like this are still impossible in War Thunder, especially because Gaijin doesn’t model anti-ERA (which was part of the simulation!).
Angle confirmed:
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Check the 2nd simulation of the video, I used that since it was more clear of what was happening to the dart all the way through.
There are more minor simulations to add to War Thunder for sure, and it’d be the first ever game in the world to have those features too if they were added.
Mate, the camera PoV is from behind, AND above the armour plate in that shot. Always take the perfectly perpendicular one, otherwise you’re introducing a measuring error (hence why you got a much smaller angle than it actually was).
That shot was also 1 degree offset.
There were two, tho the perspective I looked at was from slightly below.
66 degrees, which sadly War Thunder still doesn’t model barely perforating rounds.
If it was offset, that’s 66 degrees (however perpendicular measurements are still the most accurate so we’re sticking with 67.1 here), where DM53 at 3km’s distance would still penetrate about ~700mm of RHAe… waaay above what the armour of T-90A can offer even with Kontakt-5 working as it should (against DM53 its resistance should be significantly lower due to anti-ERA).
Throw in the fact the armour in the simulation isn’t the overperforming one that we have in War Thunder - boom, explanation as to why DM53 could defeat that there, but cannot in the game.
I always felt like T-90A wasn’t really top tier material, so in my opinion they really should just nerf K-5 to the point it’s pennable by top tier rounds and lower the BR of tanks in question.
T-90A (without 3BM60) should be pretty nice at 10.3, just like Bhishma is currently.
Armor in War Thunder universally over-performs because of simulation issues, but War Thunder also runs on a Core i3 from 2012.
At some point Gaijin will improve simulations of things as they have with SACLOS missiles this year.
There’s a lot of work tho.
DCS took 5 years to make atmospheric density as accurate as War Thunder’s atmospheric density, this is not dissing on DCS, it’s just to show how slow development can be at times.
Most of it is due to Gaijin mis-using protection standards. Right now all Soviet & Russian tanks are modelled per NATO/Western standards of rating their armours for 0 degrees LoS, whereas they should be modelled as 68 degrees LoS (so instead of needing, fx; 530mm of penetration to defeat T-80U’s composite, you’d need about ~440mm after conversion from Russian to NATO style methodology).
The entire reason why Kontakt-5 exists, is because Soviet Russia/Union was at a dead-end with their armour development, and as soon as DM23/33 & M829 entered the stage, they had two choices;
They went with the first option. Heavy ERA is a thing because they were painfully aware their composite armour was not up to scratch against contemporary APFSDS.
Kontakt-5 is fine, if anything it’s slightly underperforming. Gaijin is however modelling the highly sloped Russian composite armours completely wrong, they’re taking X value and inputting it into NATO’s armour ratings so the X value becomes X*1.3 instead.
Oh, I always thought K-5 is to blame, not composite itself, good to know. Also, how would BVM’s UFP perform in that test, would it be pennable as well ?
Regardless, I feel like T-90A should get the Bhishma treatment for it’s own health, since Russia don’t have 10.7 lineup and only one 11.0 tank, so it should be nice seeing it go down to 10.3 without 3BM60.
We still don’t know how DM53 & Relikt really interact, but most likely better because it supposedly has 2 flyer plates instead of just 1… Bundestag also confirmed that dueling MBTs with Relikt is impossible at European Combat Distances a few years ago (think 1.5 - 2.5km’s) using DM53/63, which is why KE2020Neo has become a thing.
Seems strange to me we got this sabot casing thing added before we could even get AHEAD working.
eh technicaly sabot cases are easier with only 4 pieces compared to 162 that move circular
Still, if the reason they aren’t going to work is because of a technical limitation then why add them at all? Like, they obviously knew it wasn’t gonna work the way it was meant to so why not give it HE-VT until they figure it out?
age long discussion thats an imaginable round then
True, but the round doesn’t even work in game. They could have just given it the properties of a HE-VT round. Or just make it function like HE.
Anything at this point would be nice.
I dont think theyd need all 162. Say 40 pellets would probably do. And having a consistent circular pattern means less cpu intensive as theres less randomness that needs to be calculated. I think.
Good to know, thanks.
I would like to see how things would go if their composite was nerfed and anti-ERA tips got introduced. In my opinion, tanks like 80U and M1A1/IPM1 should be more than fine to share 11.0, while other tanks with buffed ammo could go to 12.0 alongside BVM, just to not seal club 11.0s too often.
Thank you for this information. I appreciate it.
