Making Russian Tank Protection more realistic

how do 90/105/? DM63 compare to 120 DM33?

in real life, it’s also the issue of ERA being filled with (undocumented) rubber/egg packets or (documented) silicate bricks instead of explosives. Blame NII Stali for causing three thousand lost tanks, probably at least 10% losses being entirely destroyed… meaning 900 dead tankers. Could be more but the percentage of captured/damaged and lost vehicles is also pretty high

There is also a 105mm DM33, which is the one I’m referring to.

I don’t know anything on 105 mm. Just some stuff on 120 and 125

it’s not a failure at all. Russia just doesn’t have production facilities for it. And money, perhaps.

All we don’t know is exact array and exactly how Monolit ERA is made. But we know approximate composite thickness (around 1 meter, which might be 600-800 mm effective against KE with no weakspots), base hull thickness, crew “capsule” (just a rear 50-80 mm plate to protect from detonation). We know a lot on transmission (being reversive but not entirely), we even know what projectiles the APS uses.
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It’s a very good tank for War Thunder, and we only have guesstimates on it’s armor JUST LIKE on Leopard 2A7, Leclerc, etc. They back off from adding it because Russia hasn’t released anything new to have the 13.0 setup. So they will just be pushing T-90M and T-80BVM and constantly buffing their armor for that, I guess.

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