Wasn’t referring to you.
Someone wasn’t happy.
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Another one from late war 21st Army group giving abreviations for the names of some ammo.
I previously brought up from the Skink Operating Manual, Live Fire Trails, and Operational reports from No. 1 Tank Demonstration Unit CAC (the only unit to actually have a skink).
A while back I created a bug report to remove the ammo the Skink was never recorded to fire and to include ammo that was documented firing. (If this is something that interests anybody please make sure to press the “I have the same issue!” button)
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/7FDACLWvYpZ4
Where did you find that?
According to the Operator Manual the Skink in-game hull frontal armour should be 1 inch thicker.
I may make a bug report for this in the future unless somebody else does it before-hand (if you choose to do so let me know and I can send an image of this page and the front cover as needed for a bug report)
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Hmmmm.
The problem is that it says “armor basis”. If you are into US tanks you know that “basis armor” is a specific measurement of the armor’s effectiveness against APC projectiles, rather than its actual thickness.
So it could be that the armor at the front was meant to be 3’’ effective, not it’s actual thickness. The Skink is Canadian, isn’t it? It’s possible that they also used “basis armor”.
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I have never heard of this before and yeah you might be correct when comparing the armour values to those found in another book you are probably correct
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This is how armor basis works. You take an angle at the bottom, make a vertical line to connect to the curve, then make a horizontal line at that point to see the multiplication.
Survivabiliy? Really, calling an open top survivable?
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Does it have the cast-in applique? I’m at work and can’t check.
Really depends on the hull Gaijin based it off, not all the Skinks had it. I believe 1 of the 3 did. See below.
These sections regardless should be around 2.5 inches. As seen in your technical data where it says 2.5 - 2 inches.
ohhh I remember reading something about this in the microfilm about why those humps where there on the front. I’m also currently at work so I’m unable to look into it.
You are probably correct about the cast-in applique its possibly a Grizzly Late
I had a look at the in-game model after I got back home from work last night.
Pretty sure they’ve based the Skink off the pilot model.
This one here, so no side applique. However, as said above, should still have the front hull cast-in around the hatches.
In game they do have the trainer hook which was included later during testing but I’m unsure if the pilot model also include that or not.
the model should be a Grizzly Late but in game the hull is a Grizzly Early or prototype, I purchased a book I’ll get later this week that has more information on the Skink so I’ll be able to look into it, Also I’ll dig up my bookmarks from the microfilm so see if I can find anything as it’s really possible that its incorrect but I’d need to find evidence that the armour should be X while in game its Y.
Looking into it, I think the vehicle they modeled in game is the 1st skink. So it wouldn’t have applique armour. As I pointed out before this was the only take that actually “saw” combat and was deployed to the theater
But it looks like other versions also had the applique armour (This is believed to be the 3rd one but I believe to be the 2nd one but I’m unsure)
That’s what I said, I believe it’s the pilot. Though even though it doesn’t have the side appliqué. I do think it should have the front appliqué casted in around the hatches.
Oh my bad i must of misread your message.