And they shouldn’t, from my experience there is always a lot of hearsay or straight up false information passed down over multiple generations of soldiers.
They are not the engineers after all.
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in the game its garbage and if it was like that IRL we would have seen 200 pictures over the last year of destroyed ones in Gaza just like the destroyed russian tanks in the ukraine war.
Yes but it still doesnt mean it have more armor then the m4
I will make it simple…
Mk4 weights 65 tons <—> Namer weights 64.4 tons
Namer uses Mk4’s chassis(officials say…)
Namer doesn’t have the massive Mk4 turret
I wonder what’s keeping it balanced in the game tho… all the weight is in the front - huge engine, “40 tons” of front armor 😂🤣
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I talking irl
Ofc gaijin logic is dumb merkava weight 65 tons empty mass
And namer weight 64 tons fully loaded and im exaggerating
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What I said is also related to real life.
one thing im not sure about tho, the IDF mentioned that the Merkava Mk4 weights ~80 tons, so I’m not sure if the Namer weights 80 tons or ~65 tons.
We have the specified weight, it is indeed correct ingame, but the Merkava’s isn’t. Mind you the Namer lost a ~20+ ton turret, and still weighs a lot due to it being an even more up-armored Merkava hull.
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if merkava weight 80 tons what makes u think its less armored then the namer it doesnt make any sanse namer is just merkava hull
Ingame Merkava Mk4 sides are ~400mm NERA(lets keep up with gaijin…) so should be ~700mm. I’ll show you why I think its gotta be at least somewhere around 900-1000mm on the sides ingame(probably 1100mm+ IRL with SLERA…)
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Ik that but the point is that namer is just merkava hull and in the m4 most of the crew is in the turret which is more armored so how the namer(or hull) is more armored then the m4
Assuming the Namer and Merkava Mk4 have their real armor, Namer would be harder to kill. The front hull is the same, yes there is no turret but, from the sides its much protected. Also its an APC after all… its not supposed to face tanks from close range, it has lower profile(no massive turret) and spike missiles so it can hide behind mountains/houses and shoot at others without any risk.
is it harder to kill if it cant shoot at your face with apfsds?
is it a bird? is it a plane? nope its a 900mm Spike ATGM flying straight from above 🌠
and we know how shitty these missiles are in war thunder and very useless at close ranges
war thunder is war thunder, they dont even hit from above its all a big show
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yeah
Hi everyone, today I´m bringing good news. I found a patent published by Rafael back in 2005 that has been flying under the radar since. I´m convinced this patent describes part of Merkava 4 armor and it provides the first solid support I know of to argue in favor of substantially better KE protection than its currently modeled ingame.
In few words, Merkava 4´s Modular Reactive Armor contains 2 types of armor combined: the already known SLERA for defeating CE threats but also a fully passive spaced composite plates array tailored to defeat 120-125mm APFSDS. The patent I´m talking about describes these.
Estimations made thanks to this new source indicate that Merkava 4 KE turret protection shuld be buffed to a sufficiently high figure as to resist rounds such as KE-W/DM43 even at short ranges (670mm at 60º, 560mm at 0º). The hull´s UFP should be buffed at least to 480-500mm (420mm at 0º), so it should fully stop rounds up to BM42 or DM33 level, more powerful rounds may be stopped by using the powerpack compartment as spaced armor. This also goes for the front hull of all Namer variants.
I encourage you to fully read the article I wrote on this before attempting to make a bug report, as this source is nothing less than a breakthrough for understanding Merkava 4 armor and the whole topic is quite complex.
https://alanscave.blogspot.com/2025/01/understanding-merkava-4-armor.html
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Can i kiss your legs?
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Can u do the bug report?
It seems that you know pretty well about this topic
I was planning to but it would take some days. Any help in compacting this information for a concise report is welcome.
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