I rest my case.
I won’t discuss the Viggen in this topic, since this is about the Sep V3. If you’d like, we can take this out of this topic and I’d love to discuss it with you.
Most of the times it’s primarily a cook off by the propellant being ignited, while the HE rounds internally detonating would be secondary. The spall liner should and will help some, but I believe the effect is greatly exaggerated in the game. (i believe that for all tanks equipped with spall liners not just the russian ones) I 100% agree with you that less rounds should and do yield a lower chance of ammo detonation. What i find really confusing is when an APFSDS round pens though the front fuel tanks for the T series and there is no spall, and sometimes the round disappears all together.
This is not exclusive to t series only, all fuel tanks absorb spalls, Abrams do this too.
Not the USA one at least!
I think part of the issue is that NATO ERA such as Blazer and ARAT is typically a single thick flyer plate with a thick layer of explosive behind it, Kontakt-5 and Relict have 2 thin flyer plates with a thin layer of explosive between them, the issue is these 2 plates are modelled in game, but as they don’t actually separate it creates a volumetric trap where the game engine decides the round cannot fit between the 2 plates so it “non-pens” and vanishes.
In essence as you described it the propelant igniting and then the cook-off occuring is what happens once penned in carousel auto-loader. Just like lets say you seen an M1a1 and you onle fire at the back section of the turret and only get the ammo compartment without penetrating the crew compartment of the turret should not be a frag, since you are only igniting the ammo. A lot of side shots that only pen the ammo withouth entering crew compartment did indeed result in frags but it shouldn’t have, since there is no guarantee that the detonation especially if it is only sabot rounds and about 20 of them would reach the crew compartment.
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