Don’t know enough about the missile, feel free to show some vids
Are you refeering to the NERA plates?
Rear seems to offering similiar protection, just off by like 10mm in some spots
roof protection seems to be increased since it’s add composite armor with NERA ontop of the already existing 30mm rolled armor that you find on the merkavas
For the side, you got added external NERA on the upper part but you lose the composite armor
Front has slightly more coverage with composite armor + NERA compared to the merk 4 that also goes out a bit more to the sides
So based on these, makes sense it’s less protected in pretty much every spot besides the front and roof
But looking at what’s removed and whats added, idk if that 4 ton difference makes any sense
I doubt I could send those here, especially since the video limit itself is only a handful of seconds without Youtube.
However, there are plenty of cases of this vehicle being hit by handheld Tandem RPG warheads on par with the RPG-29, which penetrates at least 600mm. The armor on the Namer is also not NERA. It’s a type of armor called SLERA, which has yet to be modeled in-game at all.
I’m pretty sure they’re SLERA plates, but I don’t know for certain. Even then, there should be armor behind them internally.
As seen in these two images, you can see that the upper sides are hollow for some reason. They should naturally have armor there, but there isn’t anything at all. Just air.
Yes, the armor is pretty decent all around, but the modifiers are far too low. As an example, the 600-800mm LOS composite on the Merkava’s turret front is only around 300-400mm effective against KE and only 1000-1100 CE. These should be much higher since they currently have a modifier worse than Rubber and despite being 20 to 30 years newer than Chobham, it’s significantly worse in LOS protection.
It’s 60 tons only in the hull. There’s not nearly enough armor in this vehicle to justify the weight.
It doesn’t. It’s official that the armor removed from the turret was redistributed into the hull of the APC. Despite that, it lacks internal composites on the sides, which it should have.
This vehicle should have the best hull protection out of ALL vehicles in the game. There’s no question about it. It’s only 10 tons lighter than the Challenger 2 TES while having all of its armor in the hull alone.
The bulging at the back isn’t what I’m pointing too, I’m pointing to the upper sides in the front and middle of the vehicle. The rear is absolutely storage, I agree, but the front sides aren’t as seen in this image.
Merkava’s armor is already sad (worse than an IPM1 or a Leopard 2A4), but Namer’s armor, which is just 3 tons lighter despite missing the entire 27 ton turret, is also kinda sad…
I’m pretty sure they have the Merkava 4 weight incorrect. Every Israeli source I see says the Merkava is 80 tons, not 65 tons. It’d be weird for it not to be the most armored MBT in game as well.
The 30mm and spikes hold this back from doing a lot of damage. All vehicles should get proper armor. The Namer in its current state is unrealistic.
In Gaijin’s ads, they claim this game is realistic, so I’d expect the damage models at the very least to be as close as they can get them to being realistic.
If Merkava Mk.4 weighs 80 tons, it certainly won’t be for the fun of it…
However, many players started bashing me until I had to delete the post because “Gaijin would surely just increase the weight but not the armor”, even though Gaijin’s main defence not to improve the armor is that “it would be impossible to be better for this weight”… although I don’t know anymore, hahah.
