These tanks are a lost cause in Warthunder. Currently we seem to be stuck in this loop of snail not believing they could have more protection whilst weighing what they do - whilst simultaneously ignoring reports it’s some ~20 tons underweight.
We’ve images of a Merk’s turret allegedly surviving a Kornet impact. Ingame, Kornet goes clean through.
We’ve sources to explain how the UFP SLERA should function, ingame it acts like tissue paper.
We’ve images of the Turret cheeks - and how they’re like a solid two foot of layers composites, ingame, that act like tissue paper.
We’ve images of Namer’s side composite - showing how it’s thicker in depth than my forearm, yet ingame, it doesn’t even exist.
In fact the Merkava armor could be better but referring to the real life data with you said: what is the relationship between tank combat and guerilla warfare?
Just because a tank is being used in a guerilla warfare, tank versus infantry it doesn’t means it will behave the same in a tank direct combat, which means there’s no reason for any update on the armor values based on it’s fighting poorly armed men.
“The Shawaz” was developed specifically for taking out Merkavas in Lebanon and only managed to take out two older MK.2 units. Arguably there should be far higher losses IRL due to specialized anti-tank weapons, ATGMs have to be used at 50 yards or less and in rapid succession to take out an older Merkava.
IRL loss rates aren’t that useful for comparisons to WT unless we can confirm it was a tank or ATGM that led to the loss. The majority of all vehicle losses IRL are mines and artillery with tank on tank battles being extremelly rare.
If you support the Israel tech tree like I do, then so be it.
But stop accusing your allies of things they are not cause you get seen as an enemy of that tech tree when all you do is attack the people defending that tech tree.
I wanted to let you guys know that I found a new source (a 2005 patent by Rafael) that I´m convinced is the first and most solid support we have to argue for enhanced armor performance in Merkava 4, especially against APFSDS.
