Over 3 years and the issue is still persitent. A TOW 2B is incapable of even damaging most Russian tanks it faces and even the NATO varians usually take little to no damage (Breech blocks 100% of the spall and the HEAT-jet)
Absolute pain to use and the alternative, the TOW 2A suffers from the same problem as all NATO missiles do, it falls out of the launcher for the first 50 meters and can only be properly steerd at around 200m at which point the game engine dies and you loose all control making the ATGM fly in circles.
The only missiles which are seemingly fine are Beam-riding ATGMs
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@Smin1080p_WT Could you please explain why the slow Bradley with a broken missile (it’s been four years already) is at 10.0 BR, while the BMD-4 — with significantly better mobility, armament, and an IRST module with an autotracker — is at 9.3 BR?
And why does Soviet ERA stop shells that hit it directly at a normal angle?
The problem comes from the current simplified ERA interaction model. Instead of having an amount of kinetic energy depleted from various types of projectiles depending on the impact angle, ERA is simply modeled as an extra piece of material worth an indicated amount of protection in mm for Kinetic and Chemical warheads.
The result is that the relationship between ERA effectiveness and angle becomes linear, for example, at 0 degrees Kontakt-5 will give you approximately the base 120mm protection for any Kinetic projectile and this is wildly unrealistic as at 0 degrees the protection provided by any flyer plate should be roughly equivalent to it’s base thickness which for K5 is around ~20mm off the top of my head.
Nominally it should be somewhat lower than the plate thickness due to the difference in densities between the material composition (which is relevant for most APFSDS ) & tip geometry contributing to sectional density if we look at it from a Newtonian perspective.
And if they actually wanted to properly model things it’s not like it’s not like models (see chapter 4 of the following text) don’t exist either.
Why they nerfed them?
So it’s basically a hidden buff to Soviet vehicles.