‘‘The first of the M1s to come off the production line (so early that it was still officially an XM1)’’
That sentence doesn’t make sense entirely, so I hope I interpret it properly.
I just qouted multiple primary source documents which detail exactly what type of ammunition is used as a threat simulant, and the likelyhood of the XM-1 being able to defeat said threat types.
There’s also numerous other documents which provide us with clear live fire test data for BRL-1 and BRL-2 composites:
Quite a bit of information on this topic has been long declassified, actually.
This is no longer an excuse for ignorance.
They still eventually received modified Arrays; Note the Introduce Armor modification, line item likely to to bring them to M1E1 standards(the IPM1 seems to meet the timeline).
again a us main crying… jk jk
Germany has worse cas/AA, worse SPAA(but is 70SP ik), worse mobility, worse reload, no 12mm(except 2A5PSO) all the Leopard 2’s(2A4, 2A5, 2A5PSO, 2A6, 2PL, 2A4M) has same weak Front Hull armor than the m1a2. 3BM42 can pen both m1a2-sep and 2A5-2A6(all Leopard 2’s has same internal hull armor) but since the abrams doesn’t have a stupid human centipede, 2nd stage ammo rack, and a better angled UFP shells ricochet way more often on the abrams UPF than Leopard which makes the m1a2-sep have better hull armor than 2A5-6
Only sweden (700-710mm where the extra mounted composite armor is ingame). Since for some or no reason 2A7(630mm ingame) doesn’t get the TVM or D package in hull(atleast 700mm or 800mm) which is weird for a ≈20year newer tank and it’s only on 1 tank unlike 3 in the swedish tt
Yes it’s much but it can easly pen ground vehicles unlike any other SPAA
Not even talking about air capabilities or full ground.
So at the end it’s balanced while being unbalanced.
Then WT should’ve added the SepV3 instead of the SepV2 in Search & Destroy. The 2A7 and T90M brought something to the table but the Sepv2 was just a copy paste. top tier rounds doesn’t mean much when majority of the shots are spent aiming for weakspots.
Armor plays a bigger role in top tier than the round being used. Of the big nations, only US has the weakest of them of all. No matter how much armor you put in the hull it doesn’t take away from the fact that the turret ring is the biggest weakspot which can be easily exploited by all vehicles. What makes it worse is with the introduction of modules, it can easily absorb a lot of shrapnel. So shots that can typically take out russian tanks in one hit will not take multiple hits.
There are only few instances where 600++ penetration matters. another is that raw penetration would stay the same for the A3,it’ll only be effective at going against kontact not relikt.
I agree that the 114L shouldn’t be added, it would be to overpowered but I disagree with your reasoning. If that’s the case the vehicles with the VIKHR missile should be 12.7 as that can completely ignore smoke. One way to make the Hellfire a lot better, is give it an accurate IOG and flight path. This way, it can act like a semi F&F agm but only for stationary vehicles.
Pantsirs do not have equivalents as that is the only spaa that can completely counter CAS and it’s ordnance with room to spare. It is the only spaa that can fire it’s missiles without getting a lock on warning. That what makes it powerful.
The SepV4 would be a more reasonable equivalent to the 2A8 and the T14.
M1E1 was a testbed designation, they were built to trial 120mm smoothbore guns and eventually armour improvements (no shortage of photos with E1s with ballast weights welded onto the turret), it was redesignated to M1A1 when finalised and M1IPs are just A1s with M68 105s.
edit: E1 was intended to be the new designation for 120 armed Abrams but they changed it to A1 when it hit production
at this point, I don’t know if you are reading what I’m saying. You are playing semantics as if it’s helping your argument. It’s not.
The SepV2 in all sense is the exact same as the SepV1. Same round, armor, and fcs. The only difference is ARAT (which is useless) and the crow. That’s it. Where as the 2A7 and T90M gets better armor.
CQC is not popular, especially for top tier. I have no clue where you got that information. it makes weak spots much easier to hit but at the same time much harder for weakly armored tanks because they cannot use the terrain to it’s advantage.
AGM114 does have IOG but a heavily nerfed one. You need to have lock 6-8 seconds before it impacting to get a direct hit. By having a better IOG, you can launch and go back in cover. Hence why I said “accurate”
Pantsir can counter CAS because all of the ordance that is being shot is either mavericks or gbus. All of which are slow and easy to intercept or counter.
Players don’t design or make the maps, and they have 0 input on what types of maps. Gaijin designs the maps, and that’s what they have chosen to add. They work fine at lower BRs, but they are lacking at higher BRs.
CQC isn’t anywhere close to 90% of the maps let alone 75%.
Of the 53 maps, 33 of them are CQC.
Of the 33 maps, 8 are unavailable to 8.0 and higher matches.
So that’s 62.3% of maps being CQC, and 48% of top-BR available maps being CQC.
Like I said, the only difference is the ARAT and the CROW, nothing else. Majority of the community understands it’s a copy paste because it does/has nothing useful that that the SepV1 can’t do. Literally the only reason why you can’t remove the ARAT on the SepV2 is because it’ll literally be a sepV1 (with a crow). I don’t know why you’re adamant on saying it’s a “different” tank even though it’s not and infact a much worse tank compared to the SepV1
That’s the reason why I said it’s copy paste because where the T90M and 2A7 was a considerable upgrade to it’s predecessor, the SepV2 was not.
By popular I mean well liked by the playerbase. It is absolutely not well liked by the top tier playerbase. Having said that, the reason why CQC maps are more common is because WT can’t make new maps for only top tier. That would cost them too much.
Longer range maps favor all tanks because it emphasizes more on positioning and tactics than a run & gun type shooter.
Modern smoke launchers contain chaff as well to protect against radar guided missiles. I know at least the Swedish and French has it with their GALIX smoke launchers, but it wouldn’t suprise me if other nations has something similar.
I have no idea where you’re pulling this information from but doing a quick youtube search disproves your claim. I’ve noticed the way you “debate” and quite frankly it’s getting annoying. When I make a counter claims on your argument, you completely ignore it and then pick the smallest details of my claims to make your counter argument. You could just admit you were wrong and move on but you don’t. You debate with bad faith.
Locks onto targets the moment they spawn in, you can easily track their movements through your radar and intercept their missiles.
Pantsir shouldn’t have been added since most nations still don’t have any TOP TIER SPAAs and big gaps in their Anti-aircraft line, Russia didn’t need another SPAA since they have alot of them, it’s selfish to just add the most powerful SPAA to Russia only while letting other nations rot and suffer.
Again I have no idea what you’re taking about. Admitting when information is wrong is not bad but you have never done that. In addition you completely ignore my points and pick only the smallest of ones to critique on. Yet you haven’t done anything to disprove that.
Here are the posts that I made where you ignored the majority of the points I made on this thread (spoiler it’s all of them):
Also, I do not have a Pantsir, my friend does and I see him get +13km kill against aircrafts. And like I said before, doing a quick youtube search disproves your claim. I don’t need to face you in order to make a point.
You do realize Soviets only got their gaps filled this last year right?
Just like France and China.
Soviets are not special, and the fact you claim new top SPAA isn’t needed is hilarious.
All ten tech trees need SPAA superior to Pantsir, the only people that claim otherwise are CAS players that want to remain unkillable from SPAA.
