It doesn’t make any sense. Gaijin will only happily turn Mercava 4 into another challenger 2OES/TES, and will not adjust any of its protection capabilities. Unless you can take out any confidential information to confirm its protection. This is Gaijin.
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I would rather have:
-80 tons
-750mm KE turret
-550mm KE hull
Than:
-65 tons
-500mm KE turret
-350mm KE hull
I would rather have the Merkava be the “heavy tank” of Top Tier, being a bit slower than average but being near immune on the other hand… than the current pseudo-MBT we’ve got.
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The truth is that they could improve the armor of many modern tanks. It is clear that to a large extent it is much more difficult to give the correct armor to Western tanks than to Russian tanks, since in many the data is secret and it is only possible make assumptions. Even so, the armor should be improved in a more credible way.
That would be nice to see and a reasonable trade. What Gaijin will probably deliver:
80 tons with resultant decrease in speed and agility
550-575mm KE turret
400mm KE hull
With significant breech weak spots
I just do not know what history of Gaijin and this game people are looking at to make people think the Merkava would get that big fix. Has any tank’s armor, especially a minor nation in game, ever received a change of this magnitude in armor in a positive direction? People keep arguing this is what it should be or what I want. Cool, again the track record shows that all I can do is wish you luck with that. Not rooting against you, hope you get what is realistic and what you hope for. Keep fighting.
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Back when it was introduced, M1A2’s LOS turret cheek armor was its 60º value, meaning it was underperforming by 100mm.
All of the Abrams tanks also had their hulls underperforming by 50mm…
It took them over a year to fix it (September 2020), but they eventually did!
So there’s always hope.
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Ah, look at this… Merkava’s right front sponson armor gives us a glimpse of what the whole UFP should be…
Unfortunately, for some reason, it’s just the right sponson front armor. Then the actual hull goes down by 33%.
EDIT: This is only on LIC lol, M and B don’t have that stronger sponson.
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Always wondered what the in game differences were between those two Mk.4Bs, other a slight visual change or two around the sights and exhaust if I recall.
Random Q for ya (if you by any chance you know the answer to it): Is there anything else that should be different between them in game or are they pretty realistic as is being near carbon copies.
In reality the mk4 lic has a special steel mesh protecting the optics on the tank but other than that there is no other difference.
That was the only difference I was aware of (along with the mine protection modification). Honestly they probably should have just made it a modification for the Mk4B given how little differences there are between the two.
400 is too low for 80 tons. It’s almost double the T-72 in weight. I’d personally suggest 600mm hull.
well you use the misslie that pen 1200mm in any range and armor is only 927mm so that is normal
here is my test with the top round
No kidding…you need to listen. I AM TALIKING ABOUT WHAT GAIJIN WILL DO. Not what makes sense.
Keep dreaming about the BIG changes though. The Gaijin track record totally supports that. /s
That’s incorrect. The Kornet cannot penetrate the Merkava almost anywhere.
I don’t agree with that since you could practically make the mk4b and the mk4m the same because of some modifications. For example: an merkava mk4 crew member told me that he is in a merkava mk4a-b-m which is a merkava 4b with an added aps ( to my knowledge this information is not classified)
It’s been at least 2 years since the armor bug report has been acknowledged
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The rear may have been obliterated but It doesn’t seem to have penetrated
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totally agree with you .
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No penetaration . Merkava proved its armor against chemical projectiles in Gaza, after 8 months only one vehicle was destroyed.
The Yasin 105 rocket is similar to the PG-7VR rocket, which is even weaker because it is made in a workshop and does not have the ability to penetrate the Merkava hull.
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yo where do you find these images?