If this is true, than the M1 is WAY more armored than in game. Like insanely armored.
Translation from google
Fig. 1) of domestic tanks is slightly lower than that of the M1A2 (Table 2). The remaining thicknesses of the turret and hull armor (roof, bottom, side) of foreign and domestic tanks are almost the same. The armor diagram of the M1A2 tank is shown in Fig. 2, which indicates the use of thin armor plates to protect the roof of the turret and hull, as well as the bottom and sides. The exceptions are zones “B” and “K”, located in the sector zone ±30 ° and having an anti-projectile resistance of about 700 mm and an anti-cumulative resistance of 850 mm. Anti-projectile resistance of any fragment of protection equal to 700 mm means that if an armor-piercing sub-caliber projectile has an armor penetration of 700 mm, then this fragment is not penetrated by this projectile. A comparison of the armor-piercing capabilities of foreign BPS (600…700 mm) and domestic (420…500 mm) with the armor resistance of the frontal protection of tanks shows, on the one hand, that the protection of our tanks will be penetrated by their shells (for example, M-829), and on the other hand, the protection of foreign armored vehicles will not be penetrated by domestic armor-piercing sub-caliber shells.
That makes no sense, I’d trust Russian sources more than what the department of defense would put out. DOD would definitely under value all the numbers as to not give other nations an idea of the capabilities. Russian sources would have no merit over-inflating the values
Maybe, maybe not. Just using what dimensions are already there, kinda like how I reverse engineer irl but not a whole lot to go on. I’d love to see what the internal dimensions are. I could probably machine a small scale model lol
I believe Turret cheek armor thickness is red line to red line in the diagram.
Where “B” is is the frontal vortices of the port turret cheek.
Also, 4500 is your total turret length, this being in MM, so, 4.5 meters overall length.
You can use the front to the center of the turret ring of 3.55 meters to then subtract roughly 1.77/1.88 meters to get total turret ring radius, times 2 is your overall diameter.
