Israeli M339 is an HE-TF round with a delayed fuse intended to punch through buildings and fortifications like SAPHE. Not only that, but it’s also one of the most fun shells in the game, so why must we have another fun aspect taken from us?
In the last 3 months, Israel’s Merkavas have lost their engine armor, roof armor, and now their HE-TF penetration.
Genuinely, what gives Gaijin?
Merkava buffs are looking more and more mythical these days
It has 2.3kg of explosive in-game too
Said explosive is equivalent to 3.7kg of TNT
Oh yeah, my bad. I didn’t see that
But considering that 155mm M107 shells have 2.5 times that TNT equivalent and have less HE pen, the 120mm shell was overperforming by A LOT to begin with, so it’s more of a return to normal rather than an actual nerf
The OP is talking about the KE penetration, the HE penetrations is unchanged.
That’s a neat minor buff.
RealShatter instead of the older system.
KE penetration isn’t the penetration you should be using, it’s HE penetration, which hasn’t changed:
An over-performing munition in KE was fixed in KE.
The KE penetration is what makes it act like SAP-HE, reduce that and it becomes normal HE, that is where the complain originates from
I see.
The game has it modeled as a standard HE-TF though.
Whether it’s misnamed or otherwise modeled incorrectly I wouldn’t know.
What I do know is the round, as modeled as HE-TF… this is a correction.
It shouldn’t be called HE-TF if it’s not HE-TF.
You do realize concrete isn’t RHA, right ?
It’s HE-TF with abnormally high KE penetration, but it before the Auto-tracking buff, the fuse could be used to detonate the shell after penetrating certain areas (roadwheels, weak hull sides, driver ports etc), allowing it to kill much more effectively than a typical HE or HE-FS shell.
The ability to do so was nerfed about a year ago, this further nerf just makes it a weaker 3OF26 essentially
M107 and similar 155 HE howitzer shells aren’t even remotely simar in use or function to M339
Yes, but 23 mm is far too low.
This web page details a lot information about M339, which in-game is not correctly represented if the information containing in this website is true (from HE-TF in-game to HE-MP-T), although not correctly, I see this to balance or put in par to other large caliber HE-TF projectiles, take 3OF26 EDKV as example.
