How Tank Ammunition Works | Koala Explains: APFSDS vs. Composite Armor feat. Matsimus!
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"hacking into incoming missiles" *shows video of incoming missile being blasted to pieces by an explosion*
Great work 😉❤️
Was so excite to see title. Was not disappoint. Great work gents.
Do you play WT ? Did i see your profile in game one time? Playing the T72A??
@@XpunisherX8152 yes he does, and youll see alot of content creators if you jump in dev server customs when they drop
Hello General Mong
I wished to find get to know abou a physics or engineering channel that could get detailed on the physics of a penetrator hitting composite armor at an angle. Why does it increas in pen effectiveness?
One small correction (at 03:00). HEAT shells, even though their name might suggest otherwise, do not melt through armor. The penetrating effect relies solely on the kinetic energy of the molten copper jet, not on its temparature.
Molten copper jet...
Blabla Blabla Actually plasticized. Look up superplasticity and the Munroe Effect.
yep i don't know what they call them a chemical charge, when its about pressure ( physical ) not burning ( chemical ) reaction, that penetrate the armor
That be the Slow Mo guys Video at 3:00
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Krasimir Vasilev because they need a direct chemical charge to be effective.
75t paperweight.... im dying 😂😂
Us brits have proven with operation market garden that using bridges is heavily overrated ))))))))))))
If you're dying you should probably go to hospital, not waste peoples' time on the internet.
@@ukoctane3337 CRITICAL HIT!!!
@@aussie870 lmao XD
Wait wait wait, a vid with Matsimus? My life is now complete
Matsimus and Koala combo aww jeez
Modern tank ammo works by shooting out of a tank gun and going through enemy tank armor.
"I'm not that immature."
Also me at 5:20:
"Heh, heh. Erected."
Wow. This is perhaps the best technology presentation I’ve ever seen on UA-cam. So much science, engineering, and history inside tank rounds!
Perfect explanation and amazing video
Somethings are wrong here. Dont wanna be that guy - but: 2:55 the metal inside a HEAT shell does not penetrate the armor by 'melting' through it, but rather than by the extreme speed (up to mach 25) it gains after the explosion right behind it. And it stays relatively cool - you can see that by examining the copper after beeing fired. Basicly a metal that was deformed whilst beeing cold would have a different crystal structure than one that was hot while beeing deformed.
5:37 the Leopard 1 has no spaced armour. Tha A1 has only small plates on the turret, way less than the T26 or the Pz4H.
When saying "Leopard 1" this was including all variants. The A1, A2, A3, A4 AND A5 ALL had spaced armor, either as addon, or incorporated into the turret as an array.
As far as shaped charges, most of them DO actually heat the lining significantly, just not to its own melting point. The word "melt" was used to paraphrase/simplify. Given the speed and pressure, the lining ACTS as though it were a liquid, and ACTS as though it were legitimately melting through the target
Well, as with everything it depends.
First of all I interpreted it that way as if you were talking about the ingame Leo versions.
But ofc, the later versions had the turret shield as well . So did the first 1895 after beeing refitted to the A1A1 standard - which had no spaced armor at all when coming from the lines.
I digress, the point beeing that I wouldnt call the Leos a prime example of using spaced armor, because (1) the first design was without any at all and (2) even with the addons or the different turret, there is not much of it.
Well sure, inevitably there is going to be heat transfer due to beeing in direct contact to the explosion. But the term significantly is somewhat vage. Plus it will heat up due to the friction with the armor.
I see your point, but Im not happy with the term melting and "acts like a liquid", particularly in this context. Because the copper or whatever always retains its solid crystalline structure. Therefore it is a solid material.
There is a significant difference between the material beeing quite a lot more elastic than usally and acting like a fluid.
A fluid does not have the ability to keep its shape, whilst a deformed metal will.
Due to a lack of words, I´d compare it to stamped sheet metal, which is much more similar to the actual process. The charge "stampes" the cone into a rod and propelles it at extreme speeds through the armor. With the side effects of friction between the rod and the armor, causing heat and junks of molten metal (which is enhanced by the blast of the explosion coming through the hole in the armor after penetration) to enter the tank as well.
I know im beeing nitpicky right now, but inaccuracies like that, lead to people having the wrong ideas about stuff like this.
Koala is technically correct bu I find the term misleading, the way the copper jet moves so fast, it alters the properties of the armor kinds going it a melt effect but it’s purely kinetic. You notice heat has a bigger entry hold than the exit hole signifying that something is happening on the outsideand then the beam turns solid and punches through the rest. I find heat very interesting as of how it works.
Fluid. The word you guys are all looking for is fluid. Look up super-plasticity. There is no melting action or even any semblance of melting action. The material is simply pushed out of the way.
Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma ... and now Fluid. The different states of matter?
Night Firing exercises were the coolest. The mortar crews got training hanging illumination rounds to light the range as in actual combat. You would be duly impressed to see time-lapse photography of a Night Fire Exercise. Streaks of light across the sky from the mortar rounds and the tracers from the machine guns and the SABOT rounds from the main gun that made that " Splash" of sparks when the round strikes armor. In that mode, everything looks like multiple streaks of light in different colors. It is a striking effect.
HE : "You're firing a bomb."
What we really need is some very high speed (500k+ fps) video of a heavy penetrator rod impacting, and penetrating modern tank armour.
High explosive and Thermite Round, HEAT. HEP, High Explosive Percussion round, Apers-T, anti-personnel round, think 120mm shotgun shell with grapeshot as opposed to something way smaller like OO buckshot. And the SABOT round, which was basically a large hardened steel spike that was cradled in three wedges in the shell casing. Black powder enthusiasts use similar yet smaller versions ocassionally.
Not steel, uranium
I know it's an older vid but HEAT shells do not use heat to penetrate, it's the kinetic force of the copper that penetrates the armor.
PLEASE more of this mats and koala
That T-05 laminated glass sandwich armor had a major problem in that when hit, it made a very large pit that covered a large area around the impact point with only a thin remaining layer of glass and the steel plate behind it; the front steel plate was torn off and most of the glass excavated. This meant the tank suddenly had a large vulnerable place ready for being penetrated with ease at the next shot by the enemy. And the large damaged region could not be repaired effectively. You had to go to many interlocking replaceable smaller replaceable plates, which was a radical concept back then. Eventually they had to "bite the bullet" and design armor like that, though made of stronger materials.
Tank commander: Load Canister!!!!!
Gunner, to the loader: Gonna be a good day mate!!!!!!
Wow! 2,000 likes?! Thank you lads so much for the support!
Do you agree they still need the maus
And honestly I don’t know why you don’t have more subs and likes for this vid
They should design a rail gun tank with a wind up charge dynamo in the turret spin and charge or drive and charge.
Hey Koala, wheres the video about the old tank shells you mentioned at 2:28 ? Trying to find it
This... this right here, it blew my mind now that I might become a tank commander. Great video, never let me down!
8:20 Depleted uranium ablates into a hot sharp cone as it digs through material (instead of deforming into a mushroom shape like most other materials) and then it explodes into a white hot shower of sparks and shrapnel when it hits air on the other side of the armor (so you don't need secondary explosives onboard) which are what make depleted uranium ideal for armor piercing. Tungsten has a comparable density and good hardness properties, and political advantages, but uranium is so especially good at this one thing that we use it for AP rounds.
Except for the crew getting cancer handling and being exposed to this type of ammo and armor
Now that's my type of geeky fetish! Modern armor and mathematics
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some mistakes I could find.
but it would be too much to put into a comment fully; so just a summary:
1. HEAT does not melt through armor.
2. spaced armor does not let HEAT cool down
3. the NATO tanks may look "blocky" but they still have highly angled armor below that.
so the challenger is not the only one ;)
4. Challenger 1 actually didnt fight any 125mm armed tanks in the gulf wars and if it would have a hit to the hull would be its bitter end.
5. loads on ammo that would need to much time for a YT comment.
6. "nobody drives around with 600mm steel"
WEEEELLL, the T-72 ural has a cast turret which is 400mm at its thinnest point
7. ERA does not stop HEAT from getting fuzed, it cuts the copper jet into spaller pieces by forceing the 2 metal plates apart from another.
it also does not slow APFSDS down, it only bends them using the same effect.
8. it would be nice if NERA would have been explained a bit.
otherwise it was a decent video I guess.
first of all, your account name fits really well and second¿what the hell is the NERA?
Iron_Physik Nera is just generalizing. Nera can include anything from Ceramic, Kevlar, plastic, to depleted uranium
@@LeoMkII NERA is non-explosive reactive armor. It is essentially a form of sandwiched armor typically two metal/composite plates with either a small air gap or a polymer in between. The purpose is to allow the plates to expand away from each other slightly. this not only increase the distance being penetrated and takes energy from the round to expand but also introduces large perpendicular sheer forces that break up HEAT jets and can fragment APFSDS rods
@@LeoMkII
TL;DR It's basically a version of ERA that uses rubber instead of explosives in order to be safer for any nearby friendly infantry.
Non-explosive reactive armor. And no, @Hazardous, NERA does not refer to any of those, except some NERAs could feasibly use plastics. Those types (ceramics, aramids, high density metals) simply resist incoming projectiles, and owe their protective values to high strength, hardness, density, etc. Reactive-type armors work by actively doing something to the projectile to try to disrupt it. NERA, specifically, is generally a thin steel plate, a thick slab of rubber (or similar material), backed by another thin steel plate. When it's hit, the rubber is deformed, like when you throw a bouncy-ball at the ground and it squishes, and this forces the two steel plates away from each other, hopefully deforming or disrupting the projectile in some way.
@@LeoMkII Non Explosive Reactive Armour.
Also rubber can be used as it expands when a rod penetrates it. The combination of increased friction and shearing forces can result in a rod shattering.
(Still brew Armour)
21:30 btw it's worth noting that the composite for the Leo2 is not just simply ceramics, the armor plates are perforated and filled. They're placed in such a way that the penetrator is diverted and loses its maximum killing potential.
Cheers for the info! :D
theScottishKoala If I’m correct, early leopards have a steel plate in front with holes that when apfsds hits, it redirects the round and it loss most of its penetration, since it really doesn’t counter heat, if I’m correct, they filled the holes with ceramic.
Hazoish ? thats correct yes
The irony of the audio making matsimus sounds similar to one of the robot voice military Chanel 😂.
Shaped charges do not melt armor.
Leo 2 arrowhead is a steel/rubber/steel non explosive reactive armour. The shock wave of an impact reflects off the back plate and causes the sandwiched rubber to bulge outward, forcing the steel plates apart on different trajectories. This expansion places asymmetric loads on the rod penetrator while feeding new material into the penetration, abrading it and causing the rod to bend or shatter, reducing the sectional density and ballistic shape it relies on to penetrate. The arrow head is not designed to cause the rod to tumble otherwise it would be a simple vertical panel placed around 800mm in front of the main armour. The extreme angle of the arrowhead shape is necessary to create the angular deflection to defeat long rods. The cavity is not filled because it doesn't need to be, and the shape does not create a shot strap because the steel sheet is thin and is designed to be penetrated so that the rod can be shattered by the shear forces created by the separation of the plates.
Great duo! Two of my favourite military themed youtubers together, hope to keep on watching collaborations like this, cheers!
The tanks in the video at 15 mins in is Bravo company 1-12 cav. The footage was by Ssg Fairservice. The tank at 17:34 is HQ 60 you can tell by the red mark right above the joint of the 6 and 7 skirt.
I highly appreciate the use of Danish Leopard 2A5DK videos. Lovely tonk.
YEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!! Matsimus and Koala, in one vid?
Projectile weaponry has advanced so far that we’re back to shooting fletched arrows
you can go on and on but the British challenger Tank has not been stopped on the battlefield!
"You're firing a bomb, how complicated do you expect it to be?" BRILLIANT!!!
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@Mitch Paul Israeli rounds are long rod APFSDS rounds just like those from Germany. Nothing particularly special about them
You know you forgot to tag the slow mo guys for the vid at 2:53
theScottishKoala why hasn’t Gaijin modeled the composite armor on the T-95?
Hello there. Thou hast been graced by thee holiest algorythm.
Footage from war thunder really? How lazy were you when you made this video to not get actual footage
I affectionately call the APFSDS as the "toothpick"
It would be very interesting to see the physics of the apfsds shells modelled in game and what effect that may have on high tier games. Leopard having harder time engaging an Abrams than T-80, etc as well as full implementation of proper spall liners and other overlooked features.
Long rod penetrators have an advantage in that they dissolve their nose as they penetrate, which makes what eventually get through the plate much smaller than the original projectiles. However, this dissolving has two interesting effects, in that this means that sloping and other forces on the nose that try to deflect the projectile, elongating its path and thus decreasing its front-to-back plate penetration, have less that they can "grip" to deflect the rest of the projectile behind the nose. This also applies to sloping the armor, so that, while the front-to-back effective thickness does go up do to sloping, the dissolving of the projectile nose and the similar dissolving of the armor in front of that nose really are no longer equivalent. The long rod is REAL metal that long, but the sloped plate only has its non-sloped REAL thickness with the sloping effect being more "virtual" to the forces working SIDEWAYS in the plate as the projectile forces its way through the plate (these are not "disintegrator ray guns" and the molten projectile mass at the nose and the molten armor material being displaced have to go somewhere with only a rather small part of the total being able to exit out the front of the plate during the time involved in penetrating that plate). Thus, the expansion of the hole is not just front-to-back but somewhat sideways, making a bigger hole than the original projectile width and, thus, the bulging a splitting open of the armor on the inside of the plate near the impact point can occur even though the projectile has still not penetrated the armor in that direction. The days where, with solid steel gun projectile, "what you see is what you get" are long gone...
Just a thing on spaced armour. It was in use before the Pnz IV if look at tanks such as the A13 MkII you will note it has spaced armour on the turret
Yes and the shaped charge (heat) was actually developed by the germans in WW1. I can remember the Panzer III also having spaced armor.
I don't play WT but I do enjoy watching it, however, I do play AW, and it's nice to see these types of things as I can relate to a lot of it, and apply the knowledge here for later use. Thank you, gentlemen.
I play armored warfare to I've just been off of it since November good game just as good as war thunder
Great Video mate! Clear and concise explanation on the mechanics of different types of ammo used.
Great Job! Would love to see you two do a video discussing proper tank fire control systems and why we don't have them in game. Or radar on aircraft even tho some planes were designed just to carry a certain radar (P 61), or any other important system that has been left out of the game that would have a very big impact on just how effective that vehicle would be.
24:02 should have added that me and Bread will constantly talk about the Bradley xD
TL:DR Back side goes boom, front side goes woosh
WoW! A 26-minute non-stop ad! That has to be up there in the ad length department!
Enemy forces: “write that down, write that down!”
Thaaaaath’s one proper cooperation out there! Kudos 👏
Nice to see a summary of how Modern Ammo works from your "Correcting Gaijin" series! Thanks for the recap!
NO FUCKING WAY MATSIMUS AND KOALA FUCK YEAH!!!
"Longer rods are better" We knew
I do love the thing about HE. Basically the bigger the gun, the more HE compound you put into shell, the more destruction you can bring! Depends, depends, depends tho...
One very important detail is wrong here..
Early Soviet 125mm APFSDS rounds were not designed to defeat NATO arrays that exist in the Leo-2 M1 etc. These arrays are a spaced NERA and NxRA design. Rounds like the BM-22 had terrible performance against simple spaced arrays, nothing said against complex arrays with multiple HHS plates and possible ceramic backing plate. Soviet intel was rather confident (and wrong ) that the next gen Nato tanks would have something like a Steel ceramic steel layout.
To put it simply the yaw and fractures induced against the W core as it impacted the multi layer spaced array would cause it hit the back plate degraded, low energy, and at high angle.
Mono-block DU rounds were vastly superior against just about every target expected to be encountered. The reasons the USSR didn't introduce them is because they couldn't.
Working with DU is massively expensive, both in machine tools and dealing with contamination etc. Alloying it and forging it into long thin shapes with few defects is a very difficult process. The same goes for W long rods. The3b,-32 is very short, and 3bm-42 is multi core because a mono block core of sufficient length couldn't be constructed with enough yield strength or homogeneous dispersion of alloyed material. That it was better against some target arrays was more a happy circumstance of chance.
Soviet tanks in the 1980s would have been in very serious trouble, not because the armor of the early M1s and Leo-2s was great against monoblock KE ( hint it wasn't the USA spent billions to solve this as they develop and tested their own DU mono block rounds ), but because their KE ammo was awful against the very specific armor arrays that Nato had introduced. The newer rounds were very uncommon until 1987-89 and by then barley adequate.
Level 1: Gun shoot bullet
Level 2: Gun shoot different kind of bullet
Level 3: Gun shoot different kind of different kind of bullet.
May I just say how well edited and rendered their voices are? They actually sound like they're in the same room recording this
The DU ignites on impact in a hvfsds round, showering the interior with molten fragment that ignite fuel and ammo.
the deal is the Lans equation gives an estimate. The US gives penetration values based on real world measurements taken on real vehicles, not targets. We did these tests at both Aberdeen Proving Grounds Maryland as well as White Sands test ranges.
*Greatest Colab in History* Awsome Job! 😆😆❤️
I would really like to have a miniature APFSDS for my 12 gage shot gun.That would make a shotgun very versatile.
Sabot ammo is a thing for shotguns.
I love the HE explanation! Thanks for the very fun video! :D
A point of clarification on active defenses. Active defenses don't mean just jammers and the like but also include systems that are designed to actively destroy any incoming anti-tank munitions, missiles in particular. The Israeli designed Trophy system is one such example of an active defense system and the US has been experimenting with incorporating this, and similar, system into not only tanks but soft skinned vehicles too.
One other thing, you should really try to do a colab with The Chieftain. While Matsimus is great, The Chieftain is an actual tanker, and (as you and others may know) was an M1 platoon commander during the Iraq War.
Glad I was recommended this video, War Thunder looks like fun, I'm downloading it for PS4 now. I love tanks and have been wanting a good tank game.
Note the Germans did have APDS shells in WW2 but as they didn’t have tungsten they used it with ordinary steel. It still penetrated more but not too much hence its limited used. The problem with early APDS was due to uneven sabot separation the accuracy reduced.
This is by far the best video I have ever seen in explaining tank ammunition. As a Abrams crew member it was driving me crazy listening to people who have no idea what they are saying trying to explain penetration values of modern tanks and armor effectiveness.
love to be inside that turret with all those shells packed with depleted uranium.
small correction at 23:00
APS Systems do not exclusively screw up the incoming missile's circuits, but rather come in two different types: hardkill and softkill systems. hardkill systems like the arena-system demonstrated at 23:00 basically shoot the incoming missile with shrapnel.
Why is it that, when it comes to sloped armor, everyone (other than the Chieftain) mentions the Panther and the T-34 as examples but not the Sherman? The Sherman's glacis is most definitely sloped, after all..
Very true. It had better angle armour than t34. The better armour thickness was improved during the war . The Jumbo tank for one.
I'm certainly no expert but when you talked about air spacing between armour it gave me a thought. I wonder if any R&D guys have thought, or tested even, putting highly compressed air between the armour in pockets so that the moment the projectile and explosives penetrated the first layer they would immediately encounter a very powerful force from the escaping compressed air pushing back at them in the opposite direction. Highly compressed gases can obviously be very powerful, in fact that is exactly what an explosion is. Possibly using a compressed gas like Hydrogen that would also ignite might give even better results, although in testing its quite possible the heat could result in having the opposite and unwanted effect of helping the shell or missile to penetrate easier/further. But I reckon the idea certainly is worth looking into and testing, if it hasn't been already tho obviously, lol. Well, its just a thought anyway.
"You guessed it, from 1964." Rflol - like the British teaching the Germans Blitzkreig tactics and then not using their own idea. Brilliant!
APS systems dont hack missiles. They either scramble the laser beam guiding the missile or shoot pellets out of a shotgun to destroy the missile before it reaches its target
Heats don't melt through the armor, that's a common misbelieve. They aren't as hot as most people believe, in fact, the copper spike doesn't even reaches the melting point of the copper itself and the penetration is solely kinetic. The detonation simply hasn't enought time to give large amounts of thermal energy to the penetrator. If that would be the case, simple HE rounds would turn any target into molten blobs.
Nice video. Keep it up! I could easily watch more videos on this topic. Like a video just about a specific aspect. Like composite armor vs mantlets. Or why some apfsds shells are made to break or made out of two parts.
I'll get on that! :D
Usually APFSDS rods are segmented to handle reactive armor or plate arrays (which are kind of a reactive armor). The idea behind reactive armor is to break up the perpetrator or distort it so that it does not deliver its energy in a focused line into the armor. A segmented rod can sacrifice part of the tip section to punch through the ERA or plate array while the rear portion will hopefully be left relatively undisturbed to make contact with the final armor sections of the tank.
APCR disliked this video for not being mentioned.
I didn’t.
Our abram has 600mm penetration. We clearly have a advantage here.
Soviet (ERA) : Time to do a bit of trolling.
Im certain Ive heard Matsimus say he was artillery but I could be mistaken. Also, HEAT rounds have been replaced by MPAT (Multi Purpose Anti Tank) rounds for M1 Abrams as service rounds and as far as I'm aware, a round is in development to replace that. Although MPAT is technically a HEAT round by nature, it has an 'Air' mode which is used primarily for helicopter engagements. It also incorporates a more aerodynamic bourellet than the HEAT round.
I get that this Video is old but I thought I would throw in the extra information in for others who happen upon it.
Yeah boiiiii. Finally you've made this video.
Would you possibly be able to recreate this video with the different type of ammunition such as the one used in various aircraft types.
2:54 was that a SloMoGuys clip
Yup, the one with det cord and the big boom
You'd think HESH would be the way forward, given that you could dramatically reduce weight of gun, pressure, use of powder, and reactive armour would work less. If you increased the bore you've a gun big enough to be useful as artillery.
I just came to see these youtubers collaborate. Its nice
SABOTs are terrifying, like if that thing pens it's either going to destroy all occupants, or cause a Jack in The Box, either way, that crew is boned
16:50 Captions state, "...which can make things confusing if a *sorcerer* doesn't tell you whether..."
Worth a good laugh : )
It looks like a thumb tack at the end
1 Matsimus, 2 Matsimii LMAOOOO I'm dying
23:20 *takticle nuke incumming*
KV-2 is best tonk
I am so happy that this video was made.
Love that you guys are showing Warthunder featured in this Video!
APS does not hack into the enemy shell.... depending on the country of origin and depending on if its active or passive APS or not they usually launch a counter projectile against the incoming warhead or shell. To say they hack the enemy shell would thus imply the incoming warhead is electronic which not all are you cannot hack an APFSDS shell or a HEAT warhead not even a missile what you can do in the case of a missile however is disrupt their guidance system.
I did mean to dub over this bit post editing mentioning the "counter-projectile" idea, but what an APS like the Stora system on Russian AFV's does is muck with the SACLOS systems guiding missiles that use them. I've no idea if they can effect missiles like Hellfires or Javelins however
@@theScottishKoala It's basically like a DIRCM, it shoots a highly concentrated amount energy to blind and overwhelm the warhead and basically block the command module from picking up the IR strobe on the missile, causing them operator to lose control of the missile. You still have to hope as the receiving vehicle that the missile didn't start on the correct path already before losing guidance as it'll just continue along it's flight path.
The newer APS systems usually include small cannons around the vehicle to intercept incoming projectiles and disrupt them enough that they can't penetrate the armor anymore. For example, it can knock APFSDS rounds off alignment to their flight path causing them to hit at a far substandard angle. Due to combined arms operations though, a lot of western militaries have been reluctant for a while to use APS systems because as you can imagine, this system will maim/kill any infantry near that side of the vehicle. This is the same reason why the US and many other countries whose doctrine has infantry in close support of armor at times, stayed away from ERA. The ERA blowing up would cause harm to the infantry nearby supporting your vehicle. This is why if they did use ERA, it was usually on the upper facing surfaces. Soviet doctrine for much of its time had a very different operational doctrine where tanks were their own force and often independent of infantry so they didn't think of, or had to worry about fratricide from the ERA, so they plaster it everywhere.
I'm not sure if I'd want to be in a tank armoured in depleted uranium. I get the feeling that after a few weeks go by the crews might start to take on a green glow.
Even though the M1 Abrams has a blocky looking turret, upon closer inspection, the front of the turret is angled and slopped (though not to the degree of the British Challenger)
The more relevant question is how would a tank deal with an 155mm Lazer guided artillery shell in the roof...
the leopard a6 has 1 layer steel in side of the "keilpanzerung" the additional amour on turret :=) its about 2 cm and shaped like the outside
You didn't mention the APCR(Armored Piercing Composite Rigid)/High Velocity Armor Piercing (HVAP); or the APCNR(Armored Piercing Composite Non-Rigid) using the Gerlich squeeze bore principle.
The spaced armour of the PzIV was designed to stop shaped charges. Not small arms fire. You see later variants like the J (I think) with woven skirts, they had the same effect on SC ammunition (like from the bazooka) and were much cheaper to produce
Shaped charges rely on the kinetic energy of the plasma jet. And the liners are a very expensive alloy of precious and semi precious metals.
Correction: HEAT-FS and HEAT shells rely *purely* on kinetic energy. The temperature and explosion and everything else involved does not contribute to punching through the armor.
Most field testing battlefield results show rarely hit the hull of the target.
Koala what is your opinion top-tier balance right now? I'm not a bad player, I play the objective and try to support my team(Germans) and Yet I've got a 36% win/loss rate? The team I'm on always seems to lose and I've gone 11 games without winning one. It is so frustrating to die to Helicopters and Fjs all the time and now Giajin is adding better ATGMs and Aim 9ls on Ah1z. And now more jets get Bullpups? What is it with gaijin and screwing over every other nation?
How the fuck do you lose with germany ?
I always play them if i get to annoyed by the weak ass uk and rape xm-1s and abrams.
Helis are easy to counter since you can just range find and then snip them down, well i have the Fj4b vmf and know that thing is extremly strong.
Maybe take a gepard at the start and stay abit behind your mates, killing helis, planes, jets and ifvs alike and then later when most people lost there mbts bring the leos and rape them
It's great to have some team mates in SPAA, as America's main force comes from their aerial vehicles - however, the game has been skewed in America's favor since 1.77, and that will hopefully be changed very soon.
@@Emperor_Hood1994 Have you played WT lately? America can be full of idiots but so long as each one kills at least 1 tank they will win because they never run out of tanks.
@@nightfury8440 have you ?, cuz i win most of the time since the Abrams has probs to pen an Leo2A4 frontally where i just fire through them
@@Emperor_Hood1994 I have no idea as to why the team I am placed on loses. Matchmaker? Bad Luck? I will end up on or near the top of the leader on my team, with caps and kills, but the team always loses.
Game footage on a technical video.
Way to go.
I want to use one of thode as a thumb tack now.
*throws it at wall to stick my water bill to the wall*