350mm vs KE @ 60° frontal arc vs KE is correct based on available sources, as is 700mm vs CE @ 60° frontal arc.
The arrow pointing towards the turret cheek is at the same 30° offset as the arrows pointing towards turret side protection, I don’t think the author of that diagram is implying the armour only reaches 350mm head-on.
The Leopard 2A4 only received improved intergrated hull and turret protection by the 6th batch in 1988.
Previously built Leopard 2A4’s featured B-technologie intergrated armour packages.
I don’t read all the patch notes.
However, after the last rounds with my Leos went so well that I had lost almost every long-distance duel through oneshots. By the way, simply when shooting at the gun mantlet.
I moved to the forum. And lo and behold: Apparently there was another “balance nerf”. Great! A leopard that can take a hit was probably too much for the poor souls… And of course you nerf all the Leos, so that the earlier variants can no longer take anything. It’s sooo annoying.
You have to aim at a pixel on T90 and T82 so that a shot goes through. And even then, Stalinium likes to decide that this isn’t possible today. You don’t experience anything like that with tanks from other nations.
When I first started out, I only used arcade mode. I always said that everyone was imagining it. Russian bias blah blah blah. And then I tried it out and accepted: Yes, Russian tanks are easy mode in War Thunder. I accepted it. And then I put the Russians aside again and started with RB. But sometimes it’s frustrating.
They’re not exactly dirt cheap, it’s kind of a well advertised myth.
By knowing how russian military and equipment production works - you can debunk it pretty easily.
Or where your 120mm APFSDS penetrated a BVM (no spall liners btw) and goes all they way through the lower plate doesn’t kill the driver somehow missis all the ammo and takes the engine and transmissions out so he then turns shoots you in your front plate of your 2A7V (has spall liners btw for the uninformed) and he gets all the spalling and kills you in 1 shot.