its pen for LOS at 60 degree. In game 3BM42 has 528mm pen LOS at 60 degree.
Is the card in the game misleading, or are you?
I mean… it is clearly HHRHR, no?
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High Hardness Roled Homogenous Rubber, Ukrainian development, specifically for Ukrainian tanks
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missed the W
High Hardness Roled Welded Homogenous Rubber
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Was it the case, no ERA would be needed in the first place
These numbers are relative to 90 degrees. You have to multiply them by 2.
So 264/cos(60 degrees) = 528mm
This is the base you need to know.
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Yeha, fair, it’skinda overpowered
@Джахед btw I found this particular image through your post to the bug report system, can you tell where you got this image from?
From what I researched, what this image probably shows is an early or prototype version of the module, with crude weldings instead of the properly made, probably production version shown in the last image.
This is my speculation however, and nothing definitive.
I have circled the part this is on the tank.
Still nice to see well have people arguing black is white when it comes to fixing ERA… Guess ill just go pleasure myself again, should have known i wasnt going to be getting usable external ERA/NERA without grinding russia.
I did some digital analysis on the circulating images, happy to answer any questions. Before I am targeted by people wanting oplot to have bad armour, I know this does not really count as any kind of official source. This is just my own analysis which in my opinion very clearly shows the components of the armour and their dimensions.
Combined image:
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Before I go to sleep I also did some rough calculations:
BM Oplot armour array should have:
1x 15mm plate, 2x 50mm plates, and 1x 60mm plate of RHA (175mm total)
1x 35mm plate of textolite
2x layers of Nizh ERA (Duplet)
The RHA alone gives us 467mm of equivalent protection when viewed from a 68 degree angle of the UFP. Add the 280mm effective KE protection ERA as modeled by gaijin, and the 35mm textolite layer, we should have >750mm of KE protection if the plate is modeled properly.
Right now, one of the 50mm plates is modeled as 35mm Structural steel, which is approximately 15.75mm RHA equivalent. This gives us an effective RHA value of roughly 375mm, adding 280mm for ERA, we get 655mm + textolite layer.
In theory this should be enough to defeat 3BM60, but it still goes through relatively easily, perhaps some normalization is at play making it less effective. Regardless, this should be fixed if the proper plate is modelled.
Edit:
I was looking at 3BM60’s raw penetration, but at 60 degrees, which is closer to the 68 degree angle of the UFP, 3BM60 has 654mm of penetration.
At first I was confused why a 35mm structural steel plate was chosen since it has never been shown in any documents, but this choice, by coincidence or not, exactly allows 3BM60 to penetrate the UFP at distances of 500m or less. Very interesting.
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