I’ve had this doubt for quite some time. The doubt is because Gaijin has been determined for years to make the added Western armor only serve mostly to add more weight to those vehicles, since in many cases they give marginal improvements in survival while you lose a lot of acceleration and mobility. Apart from that, it is clearly seen how Gaijin gives the added armor a completely invented protection factor.
As you can see in the two photos of the Challenger mk3, it has composite bricks with 30mm protection against kinetic and 400mm against chemicals.
Then in these two images we have a Challenger 2 OES, much more modern, with bricks twice as large, and mysteriously it has the same protection, something that would be impossible simply because it is more modern and larger, instead Gaijin decided to leave it with the same protection, simply impressive.
I have seen this in other vehicles, such as the Leopard 1 Mexas, which also has an excess of armor to give it marginal survivability.
In comparison, the added armor of Soviet origin has a better performance. Despite being smaller, they provide good protection, they are small and do not add much weight to the vehicles.As you can see in the images, the Kontak 1 offers low protection against kinetics, however, having 25mm more kinetic protection than the Western one does not save you anything, on the other hand it is equal in chemical protection, being smaller and weighing less.
Then we have the Kontakt 5 and Relict, which are clearly superior to anything western, both in protection, size and lightness.
Obviously, it is most likely that the protection provided by the Kontakt 1 and 5 is more or less realistic, since they are two armors widely used by many countries, even Western ones, however with the Relict I have serious doubts that it has such impressive effectiveness, and it seems that Gaijin only gave it the necessary protection to be able to stop modern APDS-FS.
On the other hand we have the Dynas armor of the Slovak T72, which provides reasonable defense while being somewhat thicker than the Kontakt 5.
I understand that much of the western armor is secret, and protection can only be given mainly by assumptions of what it could withstand, but it would be interesting if gaijin thought things through a little better. If the armor is more modern, heavier and thicker, it has to give better protection, not the same protection as the previous one.
PD:Seriously gaijin? Structural steel?
