The Bradley weighs 30 tons. How is it comparable?
The booker weighs 42tons
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What is the USA’s mind set? It can’t weigh 42 tons because of empty space and electronics. Something makes it weigh that much.
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The Russian t90 weighs 46 tons.
The Russian t90 weighs 46 tons. Maybe the bookers armor should be compared to the t90
no russian tanks are so light due to them makeing the tanks as compact as possible which leads to them being smaller but not alot of space for the crew and restricts people who are too tall to be crew of these tanks
Since the XM8 isn’t tech tree (Which I still believe it should be) the M10 would be a great light tank to slot after either the Stryker or the Bradley as a 10.x lightweight for the US tech tree.
Do you understand the concept of reading or are you just skimming through what I say and making immediate assumptions?
So let me quote myself since you clearly can’t. “Even then its armor is comparable to a Bradley at best”
I fail to seriously think that just cause a tank weighs something comparable to an MBT means its armor is also comparable. it’s like trying to say that a Mark V tank which weighs a whopping 29 tons has armor comparable to a Type 4 Chi-To medium tank which only weighs 1 ton more at 30 tons.
Meanwhile, in the Type-4 Chi-To Medium tank, armor thickness goes anywhere from 12mm’s+ on the sides to 75mm’s+ front.
While frontally the Mark V is 14 front, 12 or a little less on the side, and 6mm at the minimal on the roof.
So let me put this into basic English just cause a tank weights a lot doesn’t mean it has a lot of armor.
No, I’m really not reading your reply’s after the first sentence because it’s ridiculous. We don’t know what the armor ‘s like because it’s classified but until we know- the weight & size are the only comparison to hypothesize armor thickness. The Bradley- 30 tons- and the booker-42 tons- are relative in size.So yes there is a solid chance that the booker doesn’t weigh 12 tons more just because of magic.
I compared the t90 and booker because of their size & speed & weight are similar. It’s just an observation though, that’s it. The weight has to come from SOMEWHERE, that’s all I’m trying to say. You’re not understanding my replies.
Are you 12?
It doesn’t matter if it’s classified or not. It doesn’t take a person with 2 brain cells to figure that it will not have the armor thickness nor packages that an Abrams has.
The M10 Booker is fulfilling the gaps that were left when the US Army was forced to remove the planned XM8 tanks to be serviced. For cost deduction reasons. That was not directly related to the project. The US Military is simply restructuring since its incredibly rigid rather than flexible. However, knowing you. You’re not gonna read this.
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Not really…Abrams are ALL just really large light tanks…/shrug. They should give them ability to spot like other light tanks.
No they are mbts
With paper armor and oversized weakspots…yup.
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My guy artie has paper armor and doesn’t make it not a mbt
If you think Abrams weakspots are oversized then T-80BVM must be a walking weakspot to you.
It’s not a light tank though, it’s speed is similar an Abrams already, it’s just smaller but gains no speed advantage, 42tons for a “light tank” as some of you have claimed it outrageous. This is literally a “baby Abrams” so they can fit 2 of these bad boys in a c17. I believe it to be better armored with the 42ton weight to HP ratio. That’s my opinion. I hope one day they come out with more info on it.
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T80’s are for me the easiest to deal with once you understand Russian tanks(in WT) while using Abrams) But the Abrams is by far the easiest to defeat while playing all other nations.
The chassis is based on the ASCOD, which in its base form can only protect against 14.5 AP rounds from HMGs, US of course up armoured it to a degree by mounting additional steel plates, but don’t expect it to be better armoured than most IFVs.
At 38.1 metric tons of weight, it will actually be less armoured than the Puma (that is currently massiely underperforming as well).
The side armour on the M10 is basically non-existent, don’t count on it. The only place that has somewhat proper armour is the turret front, but again don’t expect it to stop any MBT level firepower, it will already be a miracle if it stops 57mm APFSDS from the 2S38.
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Here we go again, people claiming something isn’t or doesn’t fulfill the specific roles that a light tank performed cause “it’s too heavy” therefore it has the same armor as the Papa’s and the Mama’s.
M24 Chaffee *Laughing in the background knowing its armor was roughly around the same. For its period.