Gaijin does not care what your vehicle had or not have, issuing bug reports won’t change that. The M1 was added purposely to have no upgraded hull armor, so whatever you say, the M1 will not get it. Just like the Leopard PSO was purposely added because it had no hull armor upgrades, so no amount of bug report will fix that.
It is clear that when Gaijin wants to add something, they will add it regardless of it’s existence ( f16AJ, 9ms for gripen A, r27 for yak141) and when they don’t want to add it, they won’t.
Whether historically they had it is never a matter to Gaijin. It is what they call “balance”. Remember if your tank is inferrer to others, it is not a bug, it is intended.
So if your tanks is missing armor, stop trying. It was done on purpose.
It honestly doesnt. How thick is the armor upgrade and what is its layout? Assuming what you quoted is what the source says, your report is just a file that says “the tank got a different armor package”
Well the point of this whole post is to say just that.
it’s numbers Gaijin intended. It doesn’t matter what you find because especially for the M1A2 getting specific values for armor upgrade is not possible unless there is a leak of classified information.
So as I said in another post
Catch 22.
At least their response to that report looks a little promising to me. The way they said that they dont know if it is an increase or decrease. Sounds like if we can find some testing data or report stating something like “X round could pen the un-upgraded armor but couldnt pen the upgraded armor” they would increase it.