Yes the gaps are there exactly to prevent total detonation. One of drawbacks of such era.
They wanted powerful hexogen to make good heat jets but didn’t want it to blow up the tank. Corners were cut
Yeah, gaijin found that info, but missed 50 mm steel plate in UHP that would make UHP just thick enough to reliably stop top tier shells.
You could put 500mm plate in xray but the whole ERA will never exceed it’s widely dicumented mangi penetration test. It’s basically capped at it’s current level by reality
Btw it’s the most powerful ke ERA in game. It just doesn’t have its irl critical drawbacks
You could, but this would immediatly make Oplot be able to tank top tier shells. So we would have ukrainian tank better than russian ones, because it will be offering same protection and firepower, but with good reverse speed, that is huge deal in this game. And, so it seems, gaijin could not allow that.
Mango test shows 400mm of reduction in penetration, no matter if you look at hull tests or turret.
In game ERA gives around 290mm reduction including all covers and dampeners.
Calculations here: Comprehensive Technical Review: BM “Oplot,” “Duplet”/”Nozh” Dynamic Protection System, and Modeling Deficiencies - #16 by ARC_Convoy_77
In game it penetrates two layers of era and is stopped by the first plate.
In reality it pretty much penetrated the first plate and went into textolite.
The armor of oplot overperforms in game.
In game penetration results can be fudged very easily. Because the hull is a volumetric mess, you can also make BM42 reach the very back plate of the hull composite easily.
On the turret the results are much more clear, BM 42 always penetrates the first plate of the base armour, stops in the cellular armour and sometimes even goes until the middle steel plate of the composite armour. While in reality it was completely stopped by the first plate of the base armour, without entering composites. two times.
It does not matter if some volumetric pixel allows you to achieve realistic results. The developer intended protection provided by Duplet is ~290mm, while in reality it is ~390-400mm. It is underperforming by almost 100mm. If you have your own calculations based on test footage and results I would be happy to review them and correct mine if any mistakes are found.
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Ralin remains just as incompetent as he was back in the days when he was looking for the mythical thermal imager for the Su-39.
They say that Relikt is actually susceptible to this.
Leaving aside the mechanism of the composite armor, I can’t help but feel it’s unfair that the defensive strength of areas such as the turret ring and driver hatch, which should have the same defensive strength as the existing T-80, has been reduced.
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Thats a PATENT, it made to reflect the GENERAL IDEA, it definitely DOES NOT represent how ERA is used on certain tank. Seriously using it as a proof that there is no plating is wild.
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Irl test you refering to was using naked 1 plate of Nizh. Lear the source first.
Is the side armor of oplot supposed to be 70mm ?
The person who made the report regarding the side armour retracted it and claims that it’s actually supposed to be 70mm. Although I don’t know where he learned this.
That’s strange🤷
So is 25 only half of the armor?
Edit: never mind it has been changed
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