Strona said about Abrams that they will talk about it in a future devblog. This waiting kills me slowly like fire without FPE
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And he won’t get either spall liner…
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It’s all great stuff, but I fear he’ll end up making suitable excuses and postponing the reinforcement. I’m too anxious to sleep these days. Please, Gaijin.
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Its almost sounds like they are going to have an entire devblog on how the Abrams never had DU hull armor or better hull armor in general.
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I don’t think it states what generation of DU. The PDF I have has where it’s applied which is lower front plate turret cheeks not the mantlet. It’s just an application for a renewed licence to own radioactive materials filed with the NRC and states all turrets with a serial number ending in U have DU components.The document is from 2006 and some of it is dated 2001. So, im going to assume its for whatever generation of DU was around then. Also it’s a bit unrelated but the weight difference in weight between m1a2 and m1a2sep (not sepv2) is around 1.1 ton and the sep goes 42mph where the m1a2 is 41.5 mph :)
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I hope you’re wrong :,-(
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Best you can get is 50mm more armor on top what it has
It is interesting that the USA, before the tests in Greece, developed two types of special armor without DU and the US army most likely had access to the armor of other tanks, but these documents were cleared.
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Or they’re going to do an M60A1 mantlet style devblog - they’ll improve the hull armor of the Abrams, but by like 50 mm or so, just like they did with the M60A1 LMAO (it’s still not correct and should have a minimum of 330 mm armor according to Godman_82’s extensive research)
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Thank you so much Count trackula, maybe there will be actual accuracy to the abrams family of tanks
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Where are you getting information saying otherwise? The weight adds up to HAP bearing variants,
DOE regulations such as what? Ever since the environmental and export conditioning from aforementioned XMPP-2083, DU export hasn’t been restricted by 22 USC 2551, which unlike your linked code prohibiting… 105mm APFSDS?? From the 1990s and before the export restrictions lift following XMPP-2083.
The rules HAVE changed. Your only backing in this is a slideshow and misrepresentation of export security classification and… Laws pertaining to outdated munitions that are far outdated.
Sweden was restricted by 1993-1994 standards of American arms export, and received EAP-2 in M1A2s.
Australia and Sweden were governed by outdated export prohibitions set by America. Saudi Arabia has ordered Abrams 2 decades after restrictions to uranium export and health standards were amended.
Again, ammunition isn’t the topic, let alone 105mm ammunition.
Tungsten ammunition doesn’t cost upwards of $500 000 to use in export, nor close to a year of refits and efforts to downgrade. Said tungsten ammunition is the exact same design as all production M829 variants, though worse in muzzle energy and general weight.
Well, if the book arrives today, it will have estimates for the 3rd generation DU armor, both turret and hull. Considering the current M1A2 we have in game is based on the estimates of a nerfed non-DU export version from the Swedish trials, and that the M1A2 has 2nd generation DU inserts, it’s only logical that the 3rd generation DU armor of the SEP V1 and SEP V2 should offer improvements in protection for both the turret and the hulls.
The Army wouldn’t have wasted all the time, testing, and jumping through hoops and cutting the red tape, only to spend millions of dollars to make new armor packages, rip apart their tanks, and add more weight for the same protection or worse. Cuz one of the devs previously rejected an improvement of armor by stating the improved armor packages might not be an improvement…
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I am proud to have done my part spreading the outrage to the entire community via reddit.
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As far as the troll goes, his profile picture lionizes a nation that no longer exists and a failed ideology. No reason to put stock in anything he says.
Do you know the basis of debate? This is not up to us to prove something that doesn’t exist. It’s up to you to prove the US exported Abrams with DU armor package. You’re writing walls of incorrect text with 0 sources to back it up.
Furthermore, as some have already said, your XMPP-2083 document has nothing to do with export(the word itself doesn’t appear once in it). It is about the impact of DU on the environment… Are you trolling? If not, make an effort.
(The doc in question:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1998-07-14/html/98-18674.htm
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Australia definitely got top notch armor back then for their tanks. Currently ordered SEPv3 will again receive unique non-DU armor.
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