Oh lmao.
It doesnt mean 500mm plate that is tilted at 60 degrees.
it means plate is at 60 degree, with 500mm LOS penetration.
So around 200mm thick plate tilted at 60 degrees.
Thats the standard way of measuring penetration, the chinese are weird in how they do their measurements. Dont go by their standard.
250mm to be exact - 250/cos 60°. Anyway, if that's indeed what they meant, then it's very much within reach, but if that's the case, then the wording was completely off!! They should have said 500 mm at 0 degrees. But I do not believe this to be the case though and I'll explain why.
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this is 500 mm of armour at 60 degree
No, that's not how it works, not in any other tank building nation I know of at least!! If you mention X mm at Y degrees, then X will always denote the effective thickness of the armor array, not the LOS thickness at Y degrees!
I mean, take that Chinese poster of their BTA2 APFSDS round for example -
What does it say here?? It's 220 mm at 66.42 degrees. So what, the actual thickness of the armor was just 110 mm??!! NO!! It's definitely a 220mm thick armor array tilted at 66.42 degrees!! How are we supposed to get 500+ mm pen at 0 degrees if we are to go with your reasoning??!! And they are not weird in this regard, this IS the norm worldwide.
So, yeah, 500 mm at 60 degrees would definitely mean a 500 mm plate tilted at 60 degrees in any part of the world!! Now, if the Indian Army follows its own unique standards, which I'm aware of one way or another, then I wasn't at fault for assuming what I did.
They can bro, very easily.
Only if we are to go with your logic, but not if we follow the norm.
