Its just that the thickness of composite armour is supposed to be way more, around 1/5 more armour for UFP.
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The turret armor eats a ton and the hull armor takes people by surprise. The mobility is fine, middle of the line, and it definitely doesn’t have the worst firepower. Pen wise the leclercs are worse and post pen wise basically everything is worse. And if the front armor is wrong then bug report it. The aps is super helpful late game too.
Well let us think, turret armour for any tank but ariete is good, hull, basically among the worst and firepower, same as any T72, worst to say safely, slower reload then anything worse pen, which matters minorly, and most tanks have faster reload and pen. APS helpful late round but other than that good luck with getting much done.
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I’m currently aware that the DTC10 is underpowered due to… some documents floating around that Gaijin will likely not take into account due to the nature of said documents, but what’s the reload time for the VT-4 in reality?
I’ve seen some numbers being thrown around for the ZTZ99A/WZ1001/VT-4A1 but I don’t know which one is real or credible.
The most credible one is 6.7 seconds
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While I’m all for more options on vehicles, remember that this is a top tier tank and FY-2T is meant to defeat HEAT projectiles, not KE threats.
Much like the TUSK and TUSK 2 kits on the M1s, at top tier CE only ERA kits are really just not worth their weight since almost everything you face are slinging darts.
If the VT-4A1 was at a lower BR I could see it being a boon, but unless the system sports some sort of applique that provides far more KE protection I just dont see a reason to carry it beyond maybe laughing at KA-52s once before they hit you with another vikhir.
Side ERA in game has been known to eat entire shots or at least eat spalling. It is more weight yes, but can help with survivability, especially against IFV’s with low penning darts. Even at a slight off angle they are able to pen the chassis and kill you. Mobility wise, I don’t understand how the tank is more sluggish than the other very mobile Chinese tanks when it has a better HP/ton ratio and transmissions aren’t even modeled in game (not that the transmission on it is bad, it’s actually a very good transmission).
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The VT4A1 is using a 1300HP engine while the 99As are using 1500HP engines. (25HP/t vs 27.3HP/t)
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I don’t know if side ERA would help the VT-4A1. Look at how little protection the side turret ERA gives on the ZTZ-99A. If they gave higher values like with the T-90M, it may actually provide enough protection to survive auto-cannons.
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not really, they do in BVM and or 90M because Relikt ERA provides more than 200mm ke, and even more in large angle, plus the 80mm side armor, it can nerf the APFSDS to ground. Making it like it “eat” the the APFSDS if not pen, and much less spalling because not much ke left.
and less spalling is seen in all T-64/80, because they have a 6mm armor bucket(not shown in structure but can be found by NVIDIA tools) around the ammo, only the core spall can go through it.
For Chinese tanks, spall liners are more important, not side ERA.
Create a suggestion to add the Side ERA/Slat Armor to the vehicle. It will bring attention to the vehicle and it may get approved. I’m all for it and hope to see it as a Tier IV modification.
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as I remember, spall liners issue passed long long ago, still not applied
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May get approved. It’s subjective to Gaijin how they’re feeling xD
lerc2 have 575mm and 5s reload,how can vt4a1 577mm 7.1s is similar,bro you say this just like you never play top tier.even 6.5s is totally better than shit 7.1s,no more need to cry 5s can kill VT4A1 twice…
still better than now NO ERA.
gaiijn wont let China firepower be better than russian one,gaijin already denied vt4a1 6.7s reload.
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vt4a1 have a bug that every chinese mbt used to have when they were released.and intersting thing is this bug is always got found and fixed by gaijin after tank released 1 year later.ZTZ96 to ZTZ99A ,same one bug happened again and again on China.Gaijin forever deny this is A BUG.This same bug will make your tank turn very slow especially when your speed is low,like tailes stuck in some mud with water.
my suggestion was deleted for no reason,i have no way,so i write this thing here.And my anther aritcle about ZTZ99A innner armor not working issue was also denied by polish ruler Trizzz and deleted here by someone again and again.Sad.
Chinese all mbts liners get accepted,but all are not added,even many germany reports that written and accepted later than Chinese are already added into game in just 2 months.It is just bias.Gaijin think Chinese tanks are too powerful.They point at Chinese VT4A1 70% win rate and crying Chinese VT4A1 is better than ZTZ99A or M1A2,but it sucks as hell in fact as C1.Win rate is meaningless when no one want to play this shit and only very skillful chinese mains play it.