Trunnion on Leopard 2

Does anyone mention the addition of trunnion on Leopard 2? It is neither part of armour nor a functioning structure, but it does reduce the overall armour. Another excuse to nerf Leopard?

(Major Update “Hornet's Sting” — DEV Server Changelog (10.03.2025) - #1353 by SPANISH_AVENGER)

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I really doubt this is armored.


When penetrated the pen directly hit the bleech and crew, and trunnion is even not displayed as hitted. I have no idea why this happens

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“The stub axle is present when displaying hits; however, starting from the 2a5 version of the Leopards, there is an unknown armor sheet located right in the breech section of the gun (which creates increased damage to tanks). There are at least two bug reports on this topic, but the devs ignore them. The armor plate does not appear in X-ray; you won’t find it, only during hit simulation.”

There are armor parts in the armor viewer:


If you believe there is a bug where those armor parts don’t provide armor you can bug report it here (just search a bit first so that you don’t report something that is already reported and known about): (Gaijin.net // Issues)

A guide on how to report bugs can be found here: ([Navigation] Technical Knowledge Base | War Thunder Wiki)

  1. Not all armor is tracked in the X-ray and booking view mode. 2) You are pointing to the axle when I am pointing to the armor plate that is after it. I attached a screenshot where I marked in blue what you pointed out, and in red one of the parts that is missing in any view mode, and it is located right in the government part of the weapon, which creates increased damage to the tank. 3) I have already created a report, and it was ultimately ignored.

This is absolutely intentional weakening,before hornet’s sting Leapard2a7v’s breech area has 650~800KE,but now trunnion provides no armor protection.i had write an issue to report this,but my issue had been not a bug. This proves gaijin just want to weaken leopard

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