The Mantlet is 115mm but gets thinner as the angle increases The most of the turret is 100mm all around(though it varied slightly due to crude casting) The way OP describes the turret armor does seem accurate to how its currently portrayed in game. Well, going back to double check, the hull seems to be completely fixed including reducing the UFP to 100mm and increasing the side to ~130mm. Really? All I see is them hiding under 'variable armor thickness' as well as the turret values that do show up still being 100 mm instead of in the 90s So that would mean that the array has a LoS RHA equivalence between 500 and 530mm, or about 425mm at vertical.Įven a shorter m829 than WT uses would be able to defeat the base armor of a T-80U out to 2km. Note, that this version barely perforates the array. According to L-O, a penetrator with 27mm x 440mm dimensions, with 18,600kg/m3 density, penetrates 530mm RHA at 68 degrees. This particular model is 440mm long, not the 480mm used in game. On the other hand, we have M829, at 1530m/s. It is seen that it's unable to penetrate the T-80BV hull array, being defeated by the back plate. At that velocity and 68deg 3bm42 penetrates some 495mm LoS. Now we move on the high angle penetration vs a composite array. The sims were done by someone who uses Ansys Autodyn for a living SkyRay, not me, as I'm limited to the academic version which is limited in to 32k node/ele ments. ' Adding some ammunition simulation and Estimates here, to help understand the armor equivalence values. It seems like long rod apfsds slope modifier from 0 to 68 degrees = 1.2458 I got 442 instead of 450 that conraire got. the values that should be shown in the PA) provided by the various Soviet base armors: Part of this confusion undoubtably results from NATO appearing to use vertical protection values to describe their tanks' protection whereas the Soviets used LOS values.Īccording to Conraire's estimates the following are the corrected vertical protection (I.e. The value you see in the protection analysis is always a vertical protection value. Soviet composites are incorrectly using LOS protection values as vertical ones. The values currently shown in the PA are the LOS ones which if WT accurately modeled stuff would be compared against a long-rod's angled pen to determine if the round penetrated the armor or not. Part of this confusion undoubtably results from NATO appearing to use vertical protection values to describe their tanks' protection whereas the Soviets used LOS values.Īccording to Conraire's estimates the following are the corrected vertical protection (i.e. This is akin to a stealth buff of about 100mm in some cases. You've never proved that thick composite arrays actually offer anything less than their pure LOS thickness, and it's the basis for all your claims

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