Similar reasons to the 2S19M1/2 not having the armor of a T-72 if I had to guess. It isn’t meant to be on the frontlines, so why waste the materials on giving it tank level protection when it shouldn’t need it.
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As Hurlalala describes above.
Look at the Gepard. Based on the Leo 1 chassis. Has lower armor requirements.
I thought the chasis were reused from tanks, so it should have same armour values as the tank (except the turret ofc)
Seems i was wrong
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Soviet Union was not that broken, the amount of road wheels and driver’s entrace may be a good hint that it’s not the exact same chassis, same applies to the Chinese PLZ05 with a larger chassis.
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