Dudes got a habbit of slinging stuff out there willy nilly.
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They lost the coaxials HMG after 9.0 with the 279 last I checked.
Only their heavies get HMGs for coaxials.
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We Clearly do not play the same game. I love the Leo2a7HU FARRRR better than my T-80BVM. Literally haven’t touched it since I spaded it years back.
T-80bvm technically has gen 2.5s whereas Leo2a7 has gen 3. The game doesn’t model a lot of them correctly, it’s not a unique problem to any one tank…
Another opinionated comment…
Also the DM53 on a 2a7 is way better than a bvm!!!
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Those French thermals are outdated ones sold to Russia by Thales they were not the same quality that Thales supply the Leclerc with now.
There were some significant changes to the 2A4 to become the 2A5. The 2A4 was already superior to the T-80 and 72 models fielded by the Soviets. A fair point though
AFAIK T-10M, Obj. 279, and IS-7 are the last “coax HMG” vehicles.
Bar things like the CT-CV HP 105
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I got the BVM a few months ago, was sorely disappointed after getting it spaded and haven’t bothered with it for ages.
Rather use the VT4A1 or the Abrams over it.
was gonna say as well almost every top tier is packing gen 2 thermals for no other reason than balance.
I’m sorry but they were still generation two thermals that were not bad at all.
Ofc it’s not the same supplied to Thales now, however the leclerc S1 has the same quality of thermals as the SXXI which just shows how irrelevant that comment is in game.
most top tier all get the same thermal quality when it should be marginally different for them all.
There are significant changes to the BVM compared to the T80B it’s based off of?
Thermal upgrade, complete FCS overhaul, complete overhaul of the hull composites.
faster auto loader . better engine etc etc.
For russia yup they are T10M I love to roll around in man.
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Leopards does not beat it out in reload except if you’ve paid Golden Eagles to ace your crew, so that doesn’t count, since the majority of Leopards players are not going to spend 2300 GE for that. It also beats Chinese tanks, the other russian tanks, the challies, the oplot etc. Therefore, the BVM’s reload is by all means MID.
(Not counting reverse) The leopards have worse mobility, the Abrams have worse mobility, and pretty much the same as the type 10. The type 10 does have better reload, and technically ~35mm more pen, however, it’s a paper tank. The type 10 needs to aim for weakspots, whereas the BVM can pen the type 10 anywhere.
All that with armor that challenges the 122 is crazy…
SUPER INCORRECT. Expert reload will beat it out, and if you think that’s not good enough, ACE CREWS CAN BE EARNED FOR FREE!
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- FALSE leopard beats it out in reload with an expert crew, 6.3 seconds more or less.
It doesn’t beat iut
Ariete
Lecleec
Type 10
Leopars
Abrams
Cr2 for the firsr 5 shots
Or merkavas
It’s actually below average.
All of them are 6.3 and below.
The bvm overall loses out in mobility due to capability or lack there of multiple directions
It’s faster in a straight line but the leopards are more mobile in more directions.
Yeah no, the 3bm60 actively in game eith me has screwed me a few times against type 10s as wwll as tkx.
Ive no idea what this means but the only T80 you have you used you’re negative in, the 80 U also arguably has newer/ better composites.
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Did you not read, expert crew us faster and is paid for with SL
So the majority of folks fire faster.
Yes we can way the leopards are better.
Hell the 2a6 is better and easier to use in my opinion.
Better pen, reload, turret armour, depression, has gen 2 commander thernals.
Roughly comparable all round mobility
Only lacking in UFP armour in which you should not be shooting anyone there at top tier anyway.
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It’s really not that hard. Got an ace crew in the T58 in like 112 matches…
Are you swapping the crew the tank goes to all the time??? That sounds like a you problem…
My level 82 expert Leo2a7HU crew is amazing. I live so many hits, and usually return fire and score a kill.
Leo has the better round and better armor.
“Inferior leopard” words I’ve never heard muttered until now… my god this play base.
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Well, yeah its a technical term that many people might not know exists, nor how a deflagration differs from an explosion.
Neither the US 105 M68 or 120mm M256 series guns as used on the M1 are certified to load a “HE” shell, so it’s not a concern.
The 105mm M456 uses Comp. B (-2) , which is not sensitive to flame or shock, but is flammable so will preferentially gradually burn in the presence of an excess of Atmospheric Air instead of react with available oxidizer with a lack of sufficient initiating impulse, such as an interaction with a HEAT jet.
The 120mm M830 uses Comp. A (-3) which is similar to the above explosive.
Performance can be seen in the following videos and compared, and should be obvious that the warheads don’t detonate when struck, but burn.
That video isn’t a penetration though, it’s an internal detonation with the blast doors sealed.
Given the violence of that explosion, and if the blast door was open during an penetration, most of the blast would funnel into the screw compartment, likely killing most the crew instantly, or all but the driver.
Also I could hardly understand the speaker but it sounded like he said the propellant was the first to burn off which was a huge fire.
I’ve seen burnt out abrams detonating in the Middle East, or others where they were saved by blowout panels, having the fire melt into the engine bay, totally crippling the tank. It pretty much only saves crew on the situation it’s closed and isnt pierced by a round internally, in the crew compartment.
And yes I’ve seen MPAT. It’s multipurpose… but they never declared it is detonation proof.
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Even with considering it to be on par with a leopard’s reload, it still beats or is on par with the:
ZTZ99A, T90/T72, Challenger, Leopards
And is beaten by the
Ariete, Leclerc, Type 10, Abrams, Merk
Which places it pretty solidly in the middle… perhaps slightly below average, but still very much mid. And even if it was slightly under mid, all of the pros still outweigh this
Saying that it loses in lack of movement in multiple directions is very misleading, and pretty much false as it only loses while going backward, not any of the other multiple directions. Which I’ve already pointed out as one of the flaws. In every situation where you don’t reverse, the BVM objectively has the better mobility.
You whiffing shots or being ghostshelled does NOT mean that the BVM can’t pen the type 10, it very much can pretty much everywhere
What I mean is that the BVM armor provides a similar protection experience as being in a STRV122 against the rounds present in-game. If better rounds are added this will of course change
Pen, yeah. Reload? The same essentially. Turret armor? Not relevant, both can be penned in the gun mantlet only. Leo has gen 2? BVM has gen 3. All round mobility? Objectively wrong, if the Leopard only beats the BVM in one direction (reverse), while losing in every other direction, then the BVM has the better all round mobility. Not the better reverse.
Fair, but even with an expert crew, I don’t see how your average German toptier player would sink 4,400,000 SL into simply upgrading his crew for four tanks total.
You screen shot that and send it to me. Your so full it. Who upgrades four tanks? Pick your favorite ones. Not all of them
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It objectively doesnt, you’ve taken 8 out of tbe four directions of what is omnidirectional.
Challanger 2 as well .
You say whiffing shots while youve about 8k deaths to 2k kills bud.
Modelled the same in game…
The rest ill respond to when i eake up
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Sir, I have to label you clinically insane now, or a content creator XD I cannot do that personally.
(Not trying to offend, just having a good joke)
Also I got the Wiesel 1a2 recently, that thing is goated even without the tandem atgm. Thing was like a mini maus, I got hit like 13 times before dying XD.
Plus it’s so tiny! And quick! I love it.
My 5.7 lineup is all experted, but they’re all premiums too. All the premium T-34-85s, YaK-3(e) and the TU-1
How? it’s effectively in its own compartment, even with the door open there is no immediately free path into the fighting compartment.
And the propellant is not the warhead is it? Which is where any potential for an explosion (not a deflagration) would come from, and would need to be properly initiated to have a similar blast effect to the warhead normally detonating.
You have? There are lists of documented “lost” Hulls, None were specified to have come from specifically detonating ammo, only later Airstrikes or being burnt-out / cooked off ammo after being abandoned. But then, being impacted by a shaped charge is very different from being exposed to the shock front of a detonation.
a single 15~28mm diameter hole isn’t going to do that much, especially considering other design elements of the rack itself, that prevent a free stream path to the fighting compartment, as detailed in the quote above.
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