OR they could finally buff the armor, at least the turret…but nah better forget about it cause they’ll never do it
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I just got penatrated UFP in my Mk.3C by a damn 30mm APFSDS, not even a good one.
Yep the armor in this things simply sucks
Not IRL.
I know.
Update: I just got one-shot in the Mk.3, by a 105 mm DM23 - or M111 - with a hit strait to the front of the turret, at the LOADER’S SIDE. The spalling magically went to the other side of the turret and killed all ither turret crewmen.
I don’t have Merkavas but the br I’ve played I face them a lot, as early as 9.3 the Merkavas’s armor is only resistance against APHE, HEAT, HEATFS and non-tandem ATGMS, any apfsds go through them easy even the lower ended ones from the likes of T-62’s, when I go up higher and uses 3BM42? their armor don’t stop anything.
Posted this about a week ago, might help the mk3 get its turret cheeks fixed:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/cnzRUrhq5U0M
Maybe I just have skill issues, but urban environments are where I feel it’s weakest.
Frontal engine is a huge disadvantage when rounding corners. And my god, the engine… if I had a penny for every time a 2S38 burned me to death I’d be a wealthy man lol.
Auto cannons in general are really annoying to deal with in Merks. Between the instantaneous engine fire, and all the impact shrapnel clouds blasting off the UFP, it’s blinding lol. Have no choice but to take a guess and blind fire before your barrel gets deleted.
Shouldn’t be like that at all, since IRL Merkavas are almost autocannon proof. But sadly enough, in WT it is, indeed, exactly as you described it.
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Yep. Meanwhile in Lebanon 1982-1984, Merkava Mk.1+2 crews pushing towards Syrian T-72s with no fear, knowing that their 3BM22 shells won’t pen at all.
hey @Gunjob could you please pass this on to the devs? i’ve uploaded this one 5 months ago but it didnt get any traction.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/cnzRUrhq5U0M
Not true. The armor on the Merkava shotguns spall like crazy. I’ve had my driver killed multiple times from DM13 glancing my roof armor. It’s nuts how much spall the Merkava creates.
Shells weaker than that can kill you. It’s bizarre, and I might have a theory.
This shell should not have the angle performance during penetration to go through a Merkava’s UFP, yet it does in the game. I wonder if the Merkava might be suffering from some strange bug.
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301 x cos[72] = 93mm steel plate.
And the Merkava has a 60mm cast plate.
The shell has a 60 degree angled penetration of 165 at 100 meters, or 330.
So it loses 29mm of LOS penetration going from 60 to 72 degrees.
Check this out lol
420mm max pen for the round, fully pens 556mm of armor.
Somebody please say the Merkava armor is not broken beyond repair.
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The issue is that APFSDS does not handle sloped armor well, especially at those angles. It’s barely lower than the guaranteed ricochet angle and penetrated consistently when it shouldn’t.
It should ricochet about 80 percent of the time, according to the statcard, but it doesn’t.