I mean if he didn’t directly work on the project/have access to the project during the supposed DU retrofit then what authority does he have besides guesses, no matter how educated a guess is still a guess
Yeah you got me there, however I imagine his analysis is drawn from more than just guess work.
I think yes, but no more so than westerners have for western tanks. Which makes it seem worse than it is to them, because for once the favoritism is on the Russian side rather than NATO.
Of course there are some blatant issues such as the BMPTs ridiculous survivability or the Abrams turret neck.
But I think in general both sides expect more from their vehicles than they would provide IRL.
There is also the fact that Soviet doctrine accepts that loses in war are unavoidable (NATO doctrine against the USSR was to instantly hit the forward armour brigades with tactical nuclear weapons) so their designs make sacrifices on capability to allow for the manufacturing to keep up with losses and for them to be easily operable by less trained replacement crews. It’s hard to balance around a countries military industrial capacity in a game.
To be fair there is plenty of toxic stuff used in weapons and armour production, even nano particles of non-toxic materials can be extremely harmful.
That said Gaijin could stand to be a little more generous on the armour even if just for balance reasons, the better thermals on the 12.7s dont really justify the 2 step BR jump (especially given the AIM has those thermals at 12.0 at the trade off of the KE-W).
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You mention prior to SMSV IRST was the goat, but fail to mention that the S1 was undisputed for a whole 2 years before the IRST. It had the advantage in speed, target tracking and stealth (since nothing could detect k band). It took a plane that could pull 14G’s instantaneously to dethrone the S1.
The IRST was top dawg for like 3 months before LDIRCM got added and put it in the grave.
Kh29TE at 10.7, Vhikr , Kh38, Lmur, and now Kh31’s.
This post smells like ragebait
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yeah, the soviets focused on massed armored attack on open flat european terrain during the cold war, they were planning an exercise on whether or not they could push tanks through the fulda gap. they wanted a cheap massed produced tank so they cheaped out on the reverse gear. but NATO wants less losses so they add more armor and make the tanks bigger, make the tanks more sophisticated, and its more expensive. NATO tanks had the benefit of firing from a position, and then reversing under the shoot and scoot tactic. the soviet doctrine had them with the cheapest stuff they could get to mass produce. soviet tanks lacked reverse gear so they struggled at that, so they could just charge the open european terrain in massed attacks, combined arms. and the soviets also relied more on ERA because it was lighter.
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That’s very true, but I don’t know of much that would require a lead blanket after penetration or after being exposed to significant heat like a fire.
Additionally with the density of Depleted uranium I don’t think it’s possible to make it fit lmao?
my calcs but i dont think +0.11m^3 is really going to make a huge difference, assuming the entire weight differential between sepv2 and sepv3 went to the hull armour
KH29TE at 10.7 with 6x AGM-64D at the same br :D
Vikhr yeah ill give you it nuked the competition
KH38 Yeah prior to STORM BREAKER and SPICE250 mobiles
LMUR is not good (anymore) lol
This post smells like ragebait
spidey senses
Yeah, lead blankets certainly sound like a precaution against radioactivity.
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bruh
How its a supersonic missile worse than a glide bomb??
And before you say quantity, it takes more time to release all the ammunition, enough to be killed by pantsir smv or buk
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Ah there’s where it gets complicated, that argument is under the assumption that the hull has maintained its 360mm since the 80s. IE that is has used the same armor composition since then (which it hasn’t). It’s entirely unknown how much DU was used although probably not much, when two extremely hard metals come in contact at extremely high speeds, like tungsten and DU they shatter. The whole point of the DU inserts was it cause complete fragmentation of the APFSDS round, making its penning power greatly decrease.
russian toptier is bias is real as they have never really had a time where there stuff was bad quote on quote its always been mediocre toptier and they always are getting something OP they consistantly have something OP added to them almost every update
there naval line ups good only slightly edged out by america now they have 3 iowas basically
tanks at toptier are mid nothing insane but they get like 12 of there best vehicles cause T series spam
SPAA usually OP strela pantsir S1 Pantsirs SM SV OSA etc
there planes are the most consistantly dominant
MIG-23 MLD on relase insane same with the SU33
Su27 tho there better now then originally due to multipathing changes
SU30SM was not insane its not bad but nothing crazy SM2 is insane
also they often get prototype rounds and stuff
look at beglight it had a prototype APHE round taken away becuase it was prototype then they add 2S38 with a prototype APHE
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To fit the weight budget it would have to be an INSANELY thin piece of DU, which i doubt would actually provide a KE protection benefit
MiG-23MLD sure
SU-33 ??? NO???
SU-27??? DID YOU PLAY IN THAT ERA??? IT WAS A GRIPEN CENTURY BRO WHAAAAAAAATTTTTT
Naval i dont play/care for so shrug
S1, sure
Strela debatable
SMSV yeah
Osa??? ??? are we delusional ?
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do you know of a missile called the R27ER ?
it is purely quantity, you get 6 million GBU53s which you can now just drop wherever and MITL them onto targets
unflareble btw IR missile basically AIM-9X at 10.3
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I’m sorry but if you’re saying SU-27 > JAS39A then you’re delusional lol
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