Should the Merkava Mk. 2D receive the M426 (DM63) round?

[_Baum]

@BasherBenDawg8

The Merkavas survivability is, different I guess you could say. Its armor is angular and trolly, but not strong in terms of resistance to rounds unless it’s being trolly. Another thing to keep in mind that contributes to its survivability is its spread out crew, making it quite hard to kill one with only 1 or 2 rounds if you don’t know where the crew is at. The armor is still underperforming historically as it stands even lol, especially chemically.

I fully split survivability from armour.

Armour is nothing but your resitance to rounds. Survivability is your abilty to survive penetrating shots or hits in general.

The IS-3 has extremly good armour but is not survivable, because its weakspot is also the spot where you kill most if not all of the crew and most pens will kill you as long as you hit the crew-compartment.
The Marder has no armour, yet it is very survivable, because most pens will not kill more than 1 or 2 crew and you can only kill enough crew from very specific angles or by hitting the ammo. SO while you will constantly be penetrated you will usualy not die in 1 hit.

The Merkava has decent armour and great survivability, which is a great combination to have.
Not only do you resist some shots, those that do pen are not likely to kill you.

Survivability is superiour to armour. I don`t think many would disagree with that. And any who use my general definition can not disagree. As armour is an aspect of survivabilty, but survivabilty is not an aspect of armour.

hope that clears up my statements

[TankMerkavaUser]

Merkava tanks need LAHAT too. It’s unfair that many Merkava variants can fire it but it’s not being added to the game.

[noamax]

Its kinda usless on tanks but it can be great on helis and atgms carriers

[AlvisWisla]

@_Baum_

I fully split survivability from armour.

As one should.
This is the reason I bring out Merkava Mk3 over Abrams in CQC environments more often.
Yes, the Abrams has more armor, but the Merkava has more survivability from my experience.

M1128 is also another example of survivability over armor.

[TankMerkavaUser]

Well it has a penetration of 800-900mm after ERA and a top-attack option, kinda like a Spike, so it is very good

[BasherBenDawg8]

Although I do for the most part agree with this, but I got to ask: when are you not killing a marder in one shot lmao? I’ve never not killed one in a single shot afaik. Did you mean Merkava? Lol

[noamax]

Perfect addition