Have you ever heard of the Iron-Vest? It is a secondary internal armor system, which includes one of the best spall-lining devices in the world. All Merkavas since Mk.3D have it.
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Rly?
Oh i just saw someone did make a bug report on that and gaijin accepted it so lets wait a few years
My guy, is this satire?
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The point is why does the front engine stop rounds while back engines increase spalling
You are right. All of this info is classified and thats actually the reason why nothing will change in the game. But, after all, 20 years from Mk4.A to Barak is almost like from Mk2 to Mk4. After more than a year in Gaza, with no single photo of destroyed one by RPG, I believe in 2 possibilities - or the Trophy is more than 95% working, or the armor was improved over the years. That’s what I think, its all classified.
Hahaha. First of all, Merkava engines in WT don’t stop anything. Merkava in-game gets more spall than other tanks from even shells like 3BM25.
Second, the real-life Merkava engine block is designed to be so dense and made of such dense materials, it is essentialy like a giant cube of more armor. That’s the entire point of the Merkava’s frontal engine configuration; Israel seeks more crew protection, and having something that produces more spall is stupid in that field. But something that stops spall, and even some projectiles…
So yeah. Merkava engines that absorb spall and even tank rounds are accurate, and if they don’t do so they’re not.
i have never killed a Merkava through the engine with one shot while i have never failed to kill anything through the engine in the back with apfsds
I am always being onr/two shot through the engine while playung Merkavas, even by things that would never penatrate it IRL. Your incidents have to be skill issue, no ofeense; in their current state, the Merkavas are amoungst the easiest MBTs in the game to kill.
The Merkava is incredibly hard to one shot, it’s just that it’s incredibly simple to cripple and therefor two shot
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They changed it to not a bug
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Ofc🙄
The Merkava Mk4 is missing armor plates on the turret sides and front so I made a report on it, feel free to see it:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/hIsFnHBy8Juu
That didn’t take long to get rejected…
yeah, sort of double standard with reports, I have seen reports passed with images only but yeah.
Im wondering if they even took a look at the images smh.
obviously not modeled, still gets rejected. I’d say the problem is the bug report mods, who seem to have something against Israel, the pictures are so clear, yet the rejects dont make sense.
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Do they take articles with experts/high grade soldiers saying something about a specific armor as a historical proof? if they do then we can try maybe to make a bug report for the Namer since many experts and people in the military say its more armored than the Merkava Mk4
Nope they dont take crew testimony as evidence
I find it hard to belive the namer has better armor then the m4