That’s kinda the thing, France didn’t bother to pursue new KEP just like Sweden and Italy until very recently (give or take ~2 years back), but a fun fact, Italy has received a round they never operated nor tested but that’s kinda beside the point. There is physically no new shell that can be added that would have drastically higher performance unless we start handing out DM53s to everybody just cus, and when it comes to SHARD Mk.1, there is nothing known about it apart from its muzzle velocity.
Afaik we have the second worst APFSDS now.
Third I believe, China should have a worse one (nope, theirs is better by 2mm on standard ZTZ-99A acutally)
Overall it goes like this;
DM53 (L/55) - > M829A2 - > DM53 (L/44) - > M338 - > Type 10 KEP - > M829A1 - > SLPPRJ M/95 - > KE-W - > 3BM-60 - > DTC10-125 - > OFL F1 - > L27A1.
Those projectiles are still based on OFL F1, i.e the exact same penetrator. I’ve read that F1B+ could be using SCBD propellant of the DM63, hence it wouldn’t be capable of exploding, so that’s at least the silver lining.
Then yeah, SHARD, why not ?
As stated before, nothing apart from MV is known. Gaijin could make it just an OFL F1 performance wise and there’d be nothing we could do to change that.
“this ammunition sets a new performance standard, with increased penetration capacity combined with very high accuracy”
I guess it would’nt be enough knowing gaijin to give us a really good round and adjusting with times. Would only work if it’s for some major nation that was making this shell i guess…
Honestly I stopped caring about this game mostly. Last time I ventured onto the Russian side of the forum, their moderators are in full blown denial that Western vehicles and munitions can perform well (fx, NNHack was in complete denial of DM53s capability for defeating ERA, to a point where he even started arguing against advanced simulations that were showing it 100% can, it’s a lost cause tbh), in fact there was a thread there calling for a full blown nerf of Leopard 2s turret armour to a point where 3BM-42 could defeat 2A5s turret anywhere back when the old forum was still a thing.
Guess it’s there they got some sekrit dokuments where the most costly tank at it’s release (Leclerc) can be pen on the UFP by 8.3/coldwar Russian apfsds.
Honestly that is on the devs 100%. They basically went and treated Leclerc’s UFP like T-series should be, i.e the higher the LoS the lower “effective” protection for the armour against a dart - but they only applied it to the Leclerc, while keeping T-series in accordance to Western armour standard… hence why their armour is overperforming some cases by as much as 30% ))))
Yep. I thought I’d get some premium and get back into playing, but reading stuff like this makes me happy that I get bugs every time I want to buy something from their store.
Wait, do you mean it’s “right” than the Leclerc’s UFP is butter?
In most cases, yes. However the 30% we’re talking about is the difference between T-80U stopping OFL F1 at point blank range, and being defeated by OFL F1 at like 1.5km’s.
I guess we really needed the “balance” of the reload rate at 6s…
They even had to admit it was not a bug or an oversight. When I think that on top of that, everything else in the tank, from shells to protection to mobility, is already nerfed…
Or look at the Stingers best example where they basically “explained” how the Stingers is not capable of have 20G+ maneuverability because they dont believe the west can build something superior to the igla, just ridiculous.