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  1. Vorschlaghammer

    Future Ready Combat Vehicle tender

    Armored tactics in urban warzone and plains are very different. First, Without a total war situation, nukes and carpet bombing/shelling is not feasible. Look at Syrian war, Russia has been relying on localized arty support and point air strikes mostly. You can't bombard a city for a week with a...
  2. Vorschlaghammer

    Future Ready Combat Vehicle tender

    This is T-90 turret front after being hit. The ERA did it's job, and went out, it won't protect anymore. On the left a destroyed Abrams with 60kg warhead AGM Maverick, on the right Merkava after being hit by Kornet Abrams turret front after being hit by RPG My point is, not considering...
  3. Vorschlaghammer

    Future Ready Combat Vehicle tender

    Well you have to compromise somewhere. Even 1970s vintage PG-7 RPG rocket penetrates >200mm steel, so if u want to survive, you have to use some sort of better-than-steel material. ERA, NERA, Composites work good against HEAT jets, but if you also want to protect against kinetic penetrator rods...
  4. Vorschlaghammer

    Future Ready Combat Vehicle tender

    This photo is an excellent demonstration of the armor protection design of T-72/T-90 family. They are lower, shorter and lighter than western tanks like M1 or Leopard. But that comes at a cost of all-around armor protection. That is why Soviet/Russian designers concentrated the armor in a 60...
  5. Vorschlaghammer

    Future Ready Combat Vehicle tender

    Depleted uranium encased in steel has been used as armor, since 1979 when it was introduced in the M1A1 HA package. DU has a brinell hardness comparable to tungsten, and it's heavy weight comes from the high density. High density, high hardness metals are the textbook definition of good armor...
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