it also increases profile making it much easier to spot behind a ridge line and offering more places to overpressure with HE frag shells
No, they are not. The “DU armor” in the game is based on non-DU export armor that was explicitly stated to be worse than the domestic packages and the packages offered during the Greek and Turkish Trials.
Armor: M1 < M1A1 < Swedish Trials export Abrams’ < M1A1 AIM <= domestic DU packages for the first gen (at least)
The M1A1 AIM and M1A1 HC use non-DU armor numbers from the Swedish trials, and therefore do not have the correct protection.
A proposal DU armor which shows the increase in protection DU adds, and therefore should be used to increase the armor of the current M1A1HCs/AIMs and M1A2s.
The production estimates for the new DU hull package were not stated going into FY2004/2005, so the DU packaged SEPv2s likely arrived after that (after all, the US army doesn’t produce DU packages for every single Abrams, they do it for the group of them that will be in combat).
Multiple post-2006 sources suggest otherwise (check the post I linked in the comment you replied to).
At the very least a DU-hulled Abrams should be added as it would provide the US with a tank with armor on par with the 2A7s and T-90M, even if Gaijin doesn’t want to give the SEPv2 (and likely the SEP and M1A1HC) its DU hull.
600mm KE * 0.35 =/= 20-30mm
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Here is today’s battle, I survived three air-to-ground missile hits from a French plane. After that he came at me with unguided missiles.
I would agree. There have been several times where the TUSK 2 package on the turret has saved me from being 1 shot by helicopter ATGMs. It’s not like T-series where you just completely negated all damage(and somehow not even completely strip the ERA…) and the pieces generally come off as an entire line of modules instead of only the one that is hit… But it does increase survivability.
You give up a decent amount of mobility for what is essentially just a random skillcheck. You give up an active advantage for something situational that relies on people suffering from skill issue.
Why does no one suggest removing the T-90 or T-80 relic for the sake of mobility? It just seems to me that the Gaidzins should strengthen the dynamic protection on the Abras and other vehicles.
Thanks to this protection, the 2S38 stopped penetrating my side.
Because the frontal Relikt actually offers a meaningful advantage. As for the side relikt, because both already have the option to remove it??
2S38 can still pen most of the hull side even through the TUSK II, so that is at most some dude who got Gaijined.
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That a serious question? I don’t know maybe because one offers 30mm of KE while the other offers more than 6 times that at 200mm? TF?