The T-80B series' horizontal aiming driver module and turret armor are incorrect

All tanks in the warthunder did not basically treat the turret race as an armor, instead, they treated it as a horizontal aiming driver module

but the 80b and 80bvm is different. They have horizontal aiming driver modules of the wrong size and position, and they also have the thickness of the armor including the turret race

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If you look at the images above, you can see that the current horizontal aiming driver gear is implemented inside the autoloader device, which is probably mistaken for the gear of the korzina autoloader, and even smaller.
The actual horizontal aiming driver gear needs to be in a higher position with a larger diameter

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t-72 horizontal drive

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So the turret transverse mechanism device should not be positioned in the front knee of the gunner

About the turret armor, the turret armor of the T-64A, T-64B, T-80U, and T-72s do not include a turret race, so they show a thickness of about 100mm in game armor view mode. (measured from 360 degrees) The T-80B, T-80BVM comes out to about 215mm. (measured from 360 degrees)

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The two pictures show that the top is T-64B and the bottom is T-80BVM, indicating that the turret ring armors are the same structure.

So T-80B and T-80BVM should also have a similar thickness of turret ring as other tanks

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