On the other hand, they ALSO made SEPv2 heavier; 64.5 tons (if it had its skirts and without ERA). This matches the sources that I can find, so I suppose it’s fine.
So; the weight increase between SEPv2 and SEPv3 is now “only” 2.3 tons (not amounting for all of the weight-saving measures implemented on SEPv3).
They probably will claim that it all comes from the improved cheeks… 1.15 tons per cheek, apparently.
The cheeks that maybe hold up to half a ton. This is just getting more ridiculous and we will most likely see “because no info” from Smin. Yeah sure and totally not the pretty damn detailed report explaining it all
To make it look better so not too many people realise it’s + however many tons for a marginal amount of protection onto the turret cheeks (which weren’t where anyone reasonable was shooting an abrams anyway)
I think so? Im not 100% sure. But ultimately yeah. Its a really dumb situation. They should just say they dont want to add Anti-ERA to anything other than the Abrams and that realism is no longer the focus of the game
Funniest part has to be the claim that they didn’t have it because they didn’t specifically refer to it as K5 but as KE sensitive ERA… Because the British MoD would totally know what the russians call their brand new ERA, of course.