Yeah, they basically shear off material from the tip that would dull the form if the projectile is shaped within a certain angle and hits the target above a minimum velocity. This is due to the atomic structure of DU and it's ductility combined with the very high mass. However, it works only if the target is hit at 90 degrees, otherwise this effect will be not of any significance. @@TJake-gs5jt
@@TheGooberOfGoobs anything can detonate an ERA given enough rounds. Just load a 9mm Minigun and unleash more firepower than a standard squad and you could set one off, but under normal combat, ie infantry trying to either avoid or get a nade under the tank, and it'll be pretty hard to do more than scratch the paint with small arms before getting wrecked by mg fire or HE rounds.
@@Khajiidaro Practically wise no, these are common heavy machinegun calibers you'd see on tanks, ifv's and armoured cars. Also grenades are basicly useless on tanks as there bottoms are thick enough to take the blast, this is why we have dedicated AT weapon systems like javelins, tow II and so on. And no, HE rounds are basicly never used due to the nature of it on tanks as they would only fire apfsds and heat-fs. And no, a squad of all things will never try to pin a tank or fire at it, the tank will just fire HEAT-FS into their area and spray a few machinegun bursts at them tearing them to shreds.
It seems like that was the philosophy of the engineers who first envisioned ERA. In typical Soviet fashion they miscalculated and blew up all their testing prototypes. They then abandoned the idea and weren't even the first to make it work and put it on a tank. Weird that the title of this video makes it sound like this is something uniquely Russian.
A few fun facts: Depleted uranium doesn't blunt, it self-sharpens by breaking. So even if you break the round, it will strike with less mass but still have a nice, small impact point. The latest rounds are segmented, so it can break several times and still strike the target without shedding too much mass. Lastly, the diameter of the projectiles have been slightly increased, which makes them hit way harder than before.
I’m pretty sure that’s wrong though, uranium self sharpening doesn’t actually mean that it sharpens to a point. It just means that it doesn’t mushroom outwards like tungsten. Uranium rounds still get blunt when fired
Gives u shitty cancer too. The US truly dont give a f about their own troops, or human beings in general. In Vietnam they sprayed the country with agent orange. A truly evil nation.
Yeah, they basically shear off material from the tip that would dull the form if the projectile is shaped within a certain angle and hits the target above a minimum velocity. This is due to the atomic structure of DU and it's ductility combined with the very high mass. However, it works only if the target is hit at 90 degrees, otherwise this effect will be not of any significance.
I always thought they were some kind of electronic detection system (radar, heat mapping, etc etc). Only when someone mentioned the precise term of reactive armor did I look it up and realise what it actually does lol
@@officalcrim i think it the little brick things explode when the artillery/bullets/ammo hit them. i watched a video about it. not sure if i really understood it. the bricks have explosives in them, and when something hits them, the bricks explode, and the explosion reduces the impact of the incoming force from the artillery/shell/ammo/whatever. i hope im correct and you can make a better explanation than the one i just provided. reading it back to myself, im not sure if it even makes sense
It turns out if the "reactive armor" on your tank is an empty plastic box or a plastic box full of cardboard because one of your officers sold it, it doesn't do much good.
@@danr1920 maybe so, but I think that level of corruption happens much lower. I'm sure they left the factory with some kind of actual reactive material. The problem with corruption in Russia is that it's Turtles all the way down.
@@Calvin704704 I mean no American tanks were destroyed by the Taliban though but a huge amount of Russian tanks were even before the only tanks the afghan army only had Russian tanks
Although I know about those ERA, it would be better if you can show the diagrams or animations of how different generations of ERA work. That would be much more helpful for other people I guess.
@@OTEP1234567891011 There's a reason in the real world you have to have some infantry accompanying the tanks. The infantry can scout for ambush points for RPGs and other weapons, and intercept infantry that climb on tanks to deploy mines or other weapons on turrets.
@@ArmorCast an rpg7 is 85% effectiveness against era but era has 100% effectiveness against their own supporting infantry thats why you are seeing russin tanks getting taken out their infantry knows its a suicde mission.
@@knoahbody69 Ukraine received shoulder- rocket launchers made by Saab in Sweden. The rocket explodes a metre ABOVE the Russian Sovjet age tank turret and the explosion causes such huge pressure that the tank is destroyed.
@@ignaciomunizdiaz5194 yes and it was tested against polish ERA of the same time and their ERA was way better.... most likely todays generation of polish ERA is still better... Russia is a source of building utterly crap that shine on paper and always fail to deliver in the real world...a long traditions since decades of russian crap equipment
@@nagmashot STOP TO SAY STUPIDITIES. DON'T DON'T KNOW WHO TALKING ABOUT. ERAWA 1 IT'S THE EQUIVALENT TO THE KONKAT 1, ERAWA 2 IT'S A HEAVY ERA EQUIVALENT TO THE KONKAT V AND POLAND LACKS ANY EQUIVALENT TO THE RELICK AND ANYBODY HAVE A A EQUIVALENT TO THE MALAKIT.
8:03 Relikt is in no way similar to Nozh/Duplet ERAs; It consists of a 4s23 explosive plate sandwiched in between 2 steel plates that'll be sent in 2 directions when struck, making it dependent on the angle at which the module is struck. Thus, we're seeing more and more russian tanks equipped with the infamous bagged 4s24 ERA on top of its Relikt side skirts, which actually does a better job at intercepting 0° hits from ATGMs. The linear shaped-charge design of Nozh and Duplet ERAs allows multiple modules to be stacked in an area of the armour, narrowing the gaps between each of the molten jets and making it superior to Relikt at an even wider range of angles. However, Relikt would be preferable when weight is taken into account as it is lighter for every bit of the reduction of projectile penetrating capabilities it induces.
Correct but duplet era is far less wide spread then compared to relikt therefore there less information on their performance , the duplet era in theory should be less effective agains multiple charged warheads and more likely to be less reliable due to it being extremely highly explosive .
@@ЕвгенийАльберт-б4г Aside that one time in a certain Chinese square when...not necessarily infantry but certainly Humans just so happened to be in the vicinity of tanks :D
Chains and weights on the Merkava. There to detonate RPG and other projectiles. But is it a good design? Who came up with that? Maybe an interesting video? (I would like to see a video with how this sounds. I wonder if you can hear the chains above the normal cacophony the tank creates?)
This dates back to WWII. When dealing with Panzefaust and other rocked type weapons (which were not really penetrating, but the explosion caused concussion shockwave inside tank incapacitating or even killing the crew), different countries came out with solutions to make sort of applique armor, either by adding spare parts or other stuff to more exposed parts of armor. Thats why you see german tanks with track segments or even spare wheels on turret (also served as reserve parts), sacks of sand on american tanks (+spare parts), etc. according to some sources soviets even wrapped almost entire tank in mulitple layers of chain link fence, so that Panzefaust shell would explode before hitting tank armor.
people on the internet: "Russian tanks are so amazing!", "Russian armor protection is superior!", "I worship at the alter of Russian military hardware!" Ukraine: what tanks?
@@pslobodnik Drone missiles hit the top of the tank, because you really can't armor the top like other sides of the tank. The new anti tank javelins specifically go up like a mortar and down on top of the tank.
What level of penetration would be required to trigger modern Russian ERA? I would assume small arms fire wouldn't do it, but what about autocannons or shrapnel shells?
Autocanon yes. Anything that can penetrate more or less 20 to 30 mm of steel can set it off. But then again. If you can shoot at the tank. The tank can shoot at you. Usually.
American tanks have had reactive armor since the M1A1 was developed; its been around since before the Persian Gulf War where the M60 Battle Tank was even outfitted with reactive armor
RE: the auto cannon exploit. Could you not also set them off with some sort of area concussive blast. Air blast a shell just over head and watch the tanks turn in to grape shot to anyone around and its one use is up.
I find funny that argument "infantry standing near a tank equipped with ERA is in danger from ERA parts flying"... Opposed to what? Standing near a tank that has no ERA and is being hit with a huge ATGM is safe?!
I just had an interesting thought. Could ERA be layered with slat armour? Like. I know slat armour has to be optimized to shred warheads of a certain diameter. And those usually coincide with cheaper man portable anti tank weapons. Would layering them together be an effective way to save your ERA for larger, more energetic warheads that cannot be stopped by slat/cage armor.
That's not how ERA works at all... It doesn't "increase the effective thickness" or produce a counter explosion as an opposite force to push against it, it doesn't "push more material into path of the flyer plate so that it must penetrate the full length of the plate". Heat warheads are extremely dependent on the precise geometry of the formed penetrator. Given that they are usually made from soft metals like coper and are placed under such extreme pressures and velocities that they behave like plastics, it is easy to disrupt their geometry, this crippling their penetration ability. When a explosively formed penetrator from a HEAT warhead sets off an era brick, the penetrator has basically already been formed. All ERA and NERA works by inducing a lateral(NOT OPPOSING) force on the HEAT penetrators AND kinetic penetrators to disrupt its geometry(thus structural integrity), this is why it is placed at an angle to the likely trajectory of enemy rounds whenever possible, even the big flat boxes have angled explosive sandwiches inside them. The decrease in penetration is not from pushing against the penetrator but perpendicularly, and it is not really a function of "increasing the effective thickness that penetrators must travel through", but of how much the era ruins the structural integrity of the penetrator. It also affects the trajectory of the penetrators(or of the resulting fragments of the penetrator) allowing the base armor to more effectively resist what was shot at it. All ERA and NERA works on the same principle for both HEAT and APFSDS. Also only the Ukrainian nozh and duplet contain linear shaped charges. Relikt and the Chinese copies of relikt and contact 5 do not operate like that.
That was actual before tandem HEAT charges was invented. Against them the only reliable way is to "push more material", like Ukrainian 5th generation "nozh" ERA does, basically creating a ton of near-90° angled, spaced metal sheets for a split second. This design have high efficiency against tandem HEAT (which has less basic penetration, but effective against composite or ERA) and APFSDS shots. On the other side it is nearly ineffective against old, brutal "single-stage" HEAT (partially fixed by second iteration, which includes layer of "classic" ERA, but that barely works AFAIK). P.S. that is not Ukrainian invention, but old Soviet design from mid 60s. But back then tandem HEAT was not even in design, and T-64 composite armor was more than enough to stop *any* APFSDS existed back then, so priorities were allocated in favor of maximum efficiency against the classic cumulative projectile. P.S.2. AFAIK brand-new Armata ERA have same general design, but with possibility to set individual timings to any mini-charge in block, depending on type of incoming shell/shot/missile, increasing efficiency against APFSDS.
@@disketa25 that's not true. Era works as I described. Tandem heat charges are effective by making the era spend itself before the main charge hits. No matter how the particular era functions, if it explodes before the main warhead hits then it's useless. Nozh isn't effective against tandem heat, only duplet is supposed to be, and that's because it's basically just two layers of nozh ERA, one layer for each warhead. Look at the videos of how nozh/duplet works, it clearly shows that the linear charges in the era tiles are supposed to impact the side of the projectiles cutting or damaging them.
With the current goings on in Ukraine there are numerous videos of incapacitated Russian armour with ERA (of different versions) bricks in different conditions. Just wondering about the following: - how safe is the ERA to handle in good condition? - when the vehicle has been subjected to a 'brewing up', where the ERA shows signs of burning, how safe is it to handle? - could ERA be reused in some other way and actually be effective. Off the top of my head, thinking burying it charge up with a box of, say nails or bolts or something else, with maybe a steel plate with a steel rod welded to it and suspended above the ERA more or less acting as a pressure plate.
Those are actually spacers on 4S24. They keep the sand, rubber, and explosives together. Some idiotic wannabe defense expert on Twitter claimed they were egg cartons
The bricks are Reactive Armour.They are actually Explosives. When the tank...bricks are hit by missile...it Detonates thus Redirect ing the Energy of the Missile Warhead away from the tank.
like the M-1 Tank and the BIFV M-2s and A-3s, even the M-6 Linebacker only made like 80 or so it was a Stinger track vehicle with the M-242 25mm canon and 7.62mm coax mg, the reactive armor for the BFIV wight was 8000 lbs added weight was already 23 tons combat loaded and the M-1 Tank, like 62 Tons with no reactive armor but the skirts of the tank are all at one time the skirts was a secret, loss one had to go find it really fast too out here on Fort Hood, 1st Cav was the First to Field the XM-1 Main Battle Tank and 2nd AD was the first to field the M-2 Infantry fighting vehicle and the M-3 Scouts out armor vehicle was a master gunner for a Mechanized Infantry Battalion started as a platoon master gunner to the company master gunner E-6 E-7 to E-8 master gunner and Ops Sergeant S-3 shop, the heart of an ARMY is the Man who kills the Enemy close into and destroys, tanks and artillery can take the land but it takes an Infantryman to clear and hold that land SET UP for a Counter Attack tanks and BFV's has ID their primary and alternate firing sectors of fire Come On and Get Some you red deivls, we Have F-35 close in Air Support too and the LongBows too 4.2mm motors and the field arttilley to of M-109's 155mm Howitzer rounds and it depends on if our mission calls for Divsion Artillery Support with the MRLS one can take out a hole grad 1000 x 1000 meters
Nice armour idea by the Russians. So NATO decided to design a weapon that exploits the tank's other weakness....the autoloading system in the turret. Genius.
*Dude... what specific tank are you talking about? About the T-64 developed in the Ukrainian SSR or the T-72 developed in Nizhny Tagil (Russia) there are different automatic loaders, and as the experience of the war in Syria and Ukraine shows, it is practically impossible to hit the T-72 in the carousel of reloading, detonation occurs with additional ammunition which is not located in an automated ammunition rack, and therefore now they load ammunition from 22 shells only into the automatic loader, an additional 20 shells are not loaded into the tank, but this is not only a problem for Soviet tanks, Leopard 2 has exactly the same problem!* *_Tanks T-64 & T-72 autoloading:_* ua-cam.com/video/ipc9BBodqC8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=sergoborisov *_Leopard 2 in Syria:_* ua-cam.com/video/jpPpCWEZjSo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MilitaryTV
Those are just simple steel panels, and the main purpose of their design was actually to defend against Soviet 14.5mm AT guns. ERA is completely different, and was only designed long after the war had ended
Na. Schurzen were to counter 14.5mm AT rifles which had just enough oomph to Threaten German medium tank side armor. Contrary to popular thought spaced armor during the ww2 era ( hohoho ) could actually improve penetration of HEAT projectiles.....the science of HEAT functioning wasn't fully developped and the effects of standoff distance ( and its sister : piezo elecyric fuses ) was not properly appreciated.
Schürzen worked not in adding additional armor thickness (the plates were only a few millimeters thick) but in the plate destabilizing or deflecting the round, causing it to hit at a suboptimal angle and thereby losing much of its penetration. Not altogether different than the effect Gen 1 ERA was intended to have on HEAT.
Notching is possible, but it refers to the radar, not the missile, and seeing as we have no active radar homing missiles yet, you’re notching the radar of the aircraft/SPAA. Seeing as it’s only this update that Gaijin is modelling pulse Doppler radar, you’ll finally be able to do it properly against aircraft like the FGR.2. Chaff and notching are two separate things - chaff is more helpful when you’re running AWAY from the missile, when you’re notching it’s unnecessary
@@ArmorCast yup i saw this from dcs, i forgot that they were notching fox-3’s and y mixed up flairs and chaff, so my question is a mess XD.( I know flairs won’t do anything to radar)
@@trevon5653 Notching if basically flying at a constant distance reletive to a radar device, so it won't detect you/lock on to you. For radar to be able to detect you, a relative speed (the speed of your plane measured by said device) is needed. Look it up if you want to know more, it's kinda hard to pull off in WT but good to know if you like CAS'ing.
Well, we've all seen the Russian tanks in Ukraine. Turns out ERA does not protect you against NLAWs, Javelins and all the other ATGMs. Not to mention drones and artillery. And the other thing we've all learned is that having an auto loader may mean one less crewman in the tank, but that just means one less person to die in a violent explosive death.
Western tanks have 4 crewman with a closed ammunition compartment. Much safer, instead a auto loader wich not have a enclosure compartment like the russian tanks have.
@@ronaldboonstra4834 NATO Style autoloader tanks are configured with a blowout panels. You can see this on the LeClerq Tank auto ammunition is actually under the blowout panel
ERA protects against ATGMs. Against top attacking ATGMs any fancy NATO armor like Chobham or Burlington or whatever is useless too. And we saw in Turkey and Saudi Arabia that Russian ATGMs can hit and destroy NATO designs without top attack ability. Straight through penetration.
The tanks most vunerable part is the tracks. Just a strike to the first or last wheel cog and it's diabled to continue. Then you attack its turrets from the top.
Wow, you've seen one video where people say that it was filled with 'egg cartoons' and you instantly apply that for every ERA block in use, flawless logic.
It's there to detonate HEAT rounds away from the tank's main armor. I'd assume they use bars instead of steel plates because it's lighter and cheaper (or at least lighter) than steel plates and in some cases such as the S-tank you might have to be able to see through it.
Thanks now I will sleep more intelligent tonight, I taught it was for new drivers when they destroy walls or houses they have the bricks to repair it right away. :)
Gen 2 era (kontakt 5) has only one flyer plate not 2 , Relikt which is gen 3 era has 2 flyer plates and it's much more efficient against apfsds than k5.
You know normally I hate accents in videos like these because they can be really, really, dreadful and hard to understand without subtitles. But you sound perfect no subtitles needed. Nice video friend.
Yes, of course. Wouldn't be much use otherwise. The ERA is designed specifically to detonate OUTWARDS and not cause any damage to the plates underneath it (besides maybe a bit of a scorch mark)
The crew is probably seriously hurt or at least stunned if they're unbuttoned and partially outside of their hatches. That's one of the bigger drawbacks of ERA; forcing the crew to stay inside causes a certain loss of observation capability (how much depends on the model of tank, obviously).
@@jarink1 crew leaving their hatch open is close to number one cause of death for tanks in urban warfare... or just any warfare in general. It might feel better but it's way more dangerous. You have an armored box, take the hint and hide inside it. Also no crew inside unbuttened is not going to get hurt. It's 300 grams of explosives, not a lot.
In a nutshell: it's because of the German military doctrine, which means infantry will always be near the vehicle's. If era explodes there is a chance it may create casualties on there own troops.
@@TheTryingDutchman IMO that's quite weird. Everyone in the world knows about the hull ammo the Leopards have so doesn't that make the tank more of a hazard to the infantry?
@@garesonc9672 Yeah, how so? I wouldn't try to determine the usefulness of the AK-74M, for example, solely based on the Russian Army's performance in Ukraine. Now, regarding ERA, make your points clearly, and avoid these broad , bald claims, please.
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The little iron blocks are very small.It is more easy to elevate the temperature of a small body since de air is a bad conductor of heat compare to metal,then the metals blocks can act like a match,when hitting with a projectile with high kinetic energy.
"Kontakt 1 have next to no effect on kinetic energy munitions" Gaijin: I'm just gonna ignore that... "the M829A2 and A3, and the DM53 are designed to counter kontakt 5" Also Gaijin: Ignoring that...
You mean those composite armour bricks, that remain attached to the Russian manned T-72 & T-80 turrets as they fly 25-35-125' thru the air... Yeh, those one's.
Would double tapping a tank on one side defeat the reactive armor by destroying the bricks on one side, or do the bricks only explode individually somehow? Just wondering.
They’re calibrated to not cause a chain reaction, so only the bricks that are actually hit will detonate. You’d therefore have to hit the exact same spot on the tank twice, which is doable depending on the weapon, but not easy or reliable at combat ranges
With the earliest forms of ERA, yes. Blazer and Kontakt-1 would go off to 12.7mm rounds, so in theory peppering a T-72B with shots from machine guns, or even a fighter's 20mm cannons, could open up a weakness that a TOW team could then exploit. More modern forms are built specifically to avoid this, even withstanding 30mm autocannon rounds without detonating
What sort of impact is required to activate the ERA? Could you pepper the armour first with a 20mm cannon to explode the ERA and then fire conventional anti tank rounds?
The early types of ERA like Kontakt-1 or Blazer, yes. More modern types are not as sensitive, and are designed to only detonate to the force of a tank round, RPG or ATGM
i havn't seen \ 'double shot' comments: why not fire a shot at the same coordinates say 3 seconds later, then at a exploded not exploding armor - wouldn't you penetrate then (???). how many exploding perimeters does the tank have?
ERA works well if your back in the old days but in modern wars are pointless, most western weapons are designed to bypass this as this armour is pretty much to stop like a standard RPG round not a complex anti tank launcher, plus these ERA are mostly found on sides and fronts of tanks and rarely on the back and as we know already the back of a tank is a mega weak spot and Ukraine has been exploiting this by firing launchers at the back of the Russian tanks which has no ERA and even if it did it would be useless, moment the Russians installed an autoloader in their tanks they were pretty much doomed from day one.
I love the idea that someone at some point just was like what if we make the tank explode to stop the tank exploding
hah you exploded the proxy tank our tank wears as a suit! it has 2 lives!
I hate to see the tank exploding when I think of the soldier inside 😢
Yeah, they basically shear off material from the tip that would dull the form if the projectile is shaped within a certain angle and hits the target above a minimum velocity. This is due to the atomic structure of DU and it's ductility combined with the very high mass. However, it works only if the target is hit at 90 degrees, otherwise this effect will be not of any significance. @@TJake-gs5jt
*goes up to tank*
This bad boy can fit s-
*slaps ERA brick, exploding"
Eh you’ll need to slap it hard enough to break metal plate for it to blow up even small caliber gun can’t detonate ERA
@@the_jingo really? The more you know! I thought they would be somewhat fragile, but it makes sense
However 12.7 and 14.5 or low caliber cannons are able to detonate era given enough shots or type of rounds
@@TheGooberOfGoobs anything can detonate an ERA given enough rounds. Just load a 9mm Minigun and unleash more firepower than a standard squad and you could set one off, but under normal combat, ie infantry trying to either avoid or get a nade under the tank, and it'll be pretty hard to do more than scratch the paint with small arms before getting wrecked by mg fire or HE rounds.
@@Khajiidaro Practically wise no, these are common heavy machinegun calibers you'd see on tanks, ifv's and armoured cars. Also grenades are basicly useless on tanks as there bottoms are thick enough to take the blast, this is why we have dedicated AT weapon systems like javelins, tow II and so on. And no, HE rounds are basicly never used due to the nature of it on tanks as they would only fire apfsds and heat-fs. And no, a squad of all things will never try to pin a tank or fire at it, the tank will just fire HEAT-FS into their area and spray a few machinegun bursts at them tearing them to shreds.
ERA: you can't explode us if we explode ourselves first!
Tanks mostly dont die due to explode
@@indenkellerag have you ever met a T-72?
You was said 'OUR', the Duma is proud of you!
+1 bottle of KVAS
@@alanhoff89 funny enough
It seems like that was the philosophy of the engineers who first envisioned ERA. In typical Soviet fashion they miscalculated and blew up all their testing prototypes. They then abandoned the idea and weren't even the first to make it work and put it on a tank. Weird that the title of this video makes it sound like this is something uniquely Russian.
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Whoever missed out on the opportunity to name the idea "Armour Reactive System Explosive" is an ARSE.
A few fun facts: Depleted uranium doesn't blunt, it self-sharpens by breaking. So even if you break the round, it will strike with less mass but still have a nice, small impact point. The latest rounds are segmented, so it can break several times and still strike the target without shedding too much mass. Lastly, the diameter of the projectiles have been slightly increased, which makes them hit way harder than before.
I’m pretty sure that’s wrong though, uranium self sharpening doesn’t actually mean that it sharpens to a point. It just means that it doesn’t mushroom outwards like tungsten. Uranium rounds still get blunt when fired
Gives u shitty cancer too. The US truly dont give a f about their own troops, or human beings in general. In Vietnam they sprayed the country with agent orange. A truly evil nation.
Yeah, they basically shear off material from the tip that would dull the form if the projectile is shaped within a certain angle and hits the target above a minimum velocity. This is due to the atomic structure of DU and it's ductility combined with the very high mass. However, it works only if the target is hit at 90 degrees, otherwise this effect will be not of any significance.
I always thought they were some kind of electronic detection system (radar, heat mapping, etc etc). Only when someone mentioned the precise term of reactive armor did I look it up and realise what it actually does lol
Yeah that's an APS "active protection system" Im just here to find how to explain it to other people
@@officalcrim i think it the little brick things explode when the artillery/bullets/ammo hit them. i watched a video about it. not sure if i really understood it. the bricks have explosives in them, and when something hits them, the bricks explode, and the explosion reduces the impact of the incoming force from the artillery/shell/ammo/whatever. i hope im correct and you can make a better explanation than the one i just provided. reading it back to myself, im not sure if it even makes sense
@@romeisfallingagain exactly right
@@officalcrim awesome :)
It turns out if the "reactive armor" on your tank is an empty plastic box or a plastic box full of cardboard because one of your officers sold it, it doesn't do much good.
Russian military: *I aM cOrRuPtIoN*
That's where Russian billionaires came from.
@@danr1920 maybe so, but I think that level of corruption happens much lower. I'm sure they left the factory with some kind of actual reactive material. The problem with corruption in Russia is that it's Turtles all the way down.
What are you even talking about
Abrams tusk isnt fake
Those are the explosive by the way. Just looks like it.
ERA: Turns enemy tanks into mobile claymores for enemy dismounts.
In Soviet Russia, when you shoot their tanks; even the armour shoots back.
You mean OUR tanks
We Like to Put Holes in them. USA.
@@automobilesarefun409 Especially yours.
- Taliban
@@Calvin704704 I mean no American tanks were destroyed by the Taliban though but a huge amount of Russian tanks were even before the only tanks the afghan army only had Russian tanks
@@Calvin704704 the afghan army only had T 66s and T 55s over 200 of them
1:20 can someone tell gaijin that?
Lol😅
Wdym, Wer Thonder's ERA detonates when you shoot it.
**procceds to fly a tank**
Do you even have a tank which has Era in the game?
Hmm that tank should be in 2.7 ngl
Although I know about those ERA, it would be better if you can show the diagrams or animations of how different generations of ERA work. That would be much more helpful for other people I guess.
What makes u think he knows? UA-cam content creators are often dudes reading of wikipedia...
Armor Cast: "I'm surprised they haven't put it on aircraft yet....."
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737 Maxes need that
I know almost everything you make videos about before i watch it, but its so fun to watch you tell about it because your so god damn good at it.
When attacked, Tank pre-emptively kills nearby infantry, allowing it to escape.
I mean Idk about you but that's how I play Halo... XD
As opposed to the RPG killing them from impacting the tank, anyway?
@@OTEP1234567891011 There's a reason in the real world you have to have some infantry accompanying the tanks. The infantry can scout for ambush points for RPGs and other weapons, and intercept infantry that climb on tanks to deploy mines or other weapons on turrets.
@@ArmorCast an rpg7 is 85% effectiveness against era but era has 100% effectiveness against their own supporting infantry thats why you are seeing russin tanks getting taken out their infantry knows its a suicde mission.
@@knoahbody69 Ukraine received shoulder- rocket launchers made by Saab in Sweden. The rocket explodes a metre ABOVE the Russian Sovjet age tank turret and the explosion causes such huge pressure that the tank is destroyed.
Wow! Didn't know ERA armour was this complicated! Thanks, good to know how this works :D
It's a really cool modern invention
Look into Polish ERA - seriously. It's worth looking up.
@Propa Gandia Haha xD
Germany tested polish ERA vs soviet ERA and clearly claimed the polish is better and more effective
@@nagmashot
Was against the konkat 1 era.. now russia have the malakit one.. 4 gen after
@@ignaciomunizdiaz5194 yes and it was tested against polish ERA of the same time and their ERA was way better.... most likely todays generation of polish ERA is still better... Russia is a source of building utterly crap that shine on paper and always fail to deliver in the real world...a long traditions since decades of russian crap equipment
@@nagmashot
STOP TO SAY STUPIDITIES. DON'T DON'T KNOW WHO TALKING ABOUT.
ERAWA 1 IT'S THE EQUIVALENT TO THE KONKAT 1, ERAWA 2 IT'S A HEAVY ERA EQUIVALENT TO THE KONKAT V AND POLAND LACKS ANY EQUIVALENT TO THE RELICK AND ANYBODY HAVE A A EQUIVALENT TO THE MALAKIT.
good video! quite entertaining and informative! Keep up the good work!
That first clip of the Russian tank shooting mid air literally felt like battlefield
Golmud PTSD
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Relikt is in no way similar to Nozh/Duplet ERAs; It consists of a 4s23 explosive plate sandwiched in between 2 steel plates that'll be sent in 2 directions when struck, making it dependent on the angle at which the module is struck. Thus, we're seeing more and more russian tanks equipped with the infamous bagged 4s24 ERA on top of its Relikt side skirts, which actually does a better job at intercepting 0° hits from ATGMs.
The linear shaped-charge design of Nozh and Duplet ERAs allows multiple modules to be stacked in an area of the armour, narrowing the gaps between each of the molten jets and making it superior to Relikt at an even wider range of angles. However, Relikt would be preferable when weight is taken into account as it is lighter for every bit of the reduction of projectile penetrating capabilities it induces.
Correct but duplet era is far less wide spread then compared to relikt therefore there less information on their performance , the duplet era in theory should be less effective agains multiple charged warheads and more likely to be less reliable due to it being extremely highly explosive .
Subscribed for the good researched info, good presentation, good footage and fantastic accent.
I love this series, helped me learn so much and made me become more of a nerd about tanks and planes
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@@tonyclifton265 the hell you say?
@@weirdbritishperson9542 bit of scottish for you there, pal, like the narrator
@@tonyclifton265 ah. What does it mean?
@@weirdbritishperson9542 "I just wish I could understand a word the guy says"
Also acts as a friendly infantry close support denial system.
😂😂😂
Chinese Reactuve Armour developer: Humans cheap, Tanks expensive.
Of course not, Russians and Chinese just have different tank tactics, when infantry don't get so close to tanks, like in western armies...
@@ЕвгенийАльберт-б4г Aside that one time in a certain Chinese square when...not necessarily infantry but certainly Humans just so happened to be in the vicinity of tanks :D
@@nicwilson89 you mean the day nothing happened?
Yeah who cares about the infantry, China has a few billion more to replace them with.
Chains and weights on the Merkava. There to detonate RPG and other projectiles. But is it a good design? Who came up with that? Maybe an interesting video? (I would like to see a video with how this sounds. I wonder if you can hear the chains above the normal cacophony the tank creates?)
The chains is just really scuffed slat armor. They were there to prevent rpg rounds sliding into the turret ring.
@@hazardous458 Nah the slats are the scuffed version, the chains are baller.
@@Kurogumo +1 for pun
I'd also like to look at first Gen reactive armor besides sandbags can anyone send a link I can read while I'm drunk lol?
This dates back to WWII. When dealing with Panzefaust and other rocked type weapons (which were not really penetrating, but the explosion caused concussion shockwave inside tank incapacitating or even killing the crew), different countries came out with solutions to make sort of applique armor, either by adding spare parts or other stuff to more exposed parts of armor. Thats why you see german tanks with track segments or even spare wheels on turret (also served as reserve parts), sacks of sand on american tanks (+spare parts), etc. according to some sources soviets even wrapped almost entire tank in mulitple layers of chain link fence, so that Panzefaust shell would explode before hitting tank armor.
people on the internet: "Russian tanks are so amazing!", "Russian armor protection is superior!", "I worship at the alter of Russian military hardware!"
Ukraine: what tanks?
They created hype around their tech but that's the only thing that's left from the Russian military... hype.
Yeah I always wondered why NATO never piled ERA all over their tanks. Now I know.
@@pslobodnik Drone missiles hit the top of the tank, because you really can't armor the top like other sides of the tank. The new anti tank javelins specifically go up like a mortar and down on top of the tank.
@@knoahbody69 why does this technology not work for top? Can you pls explain
@@marianvajda785 Why don't you speak English first? Or does Putin just let you post to confuse the issue?
What level of penetration would be required to trigger modern Russian ERA? I would assume small arms fire wouldn't do it, but what about autocannons or shrapnel shells?
Autocanon yes. Anything that can penetrate more or less 20 to 30 mm of steel can set it off. But then again. If you can shoot at the tank. The tank can shoot at you. Usually.
American tanks have had reactive armor since the M1A1 was developed; its been around since before the Persian Gulf War where the M60 Battle Tank was even outfitted with reactive armor
The Americans also bought the British tank armour because it was that good.
Yea but Russians had it first
well they are suppose to be reactive armor but apparently they are just on their for decoration along with those soft packs hanging over the side
RE: the auto cannon exploit. Could you not also set them off with some sort of area concussive blast. Air blast a shell just over head and watch the tanks turn in to grape shot to anyone around and its one use is up.
Yup, this is actually a tactic used by US tanks, in fact they developed an airbusting fuel shell specifically for it!
> what blows up in the players face when they dont properly strike Sundowner’s shield
I find funny that argument "infantry standing near a tank equipped with ERA is in danger from ERA parts flying"... Opposed to what? Standing near a tank that has no ERA and is being hit with a huge ATGM is safe?!
if I had to choose, I would rather risk catching a flyer plate than the tanks ammo going off beside me... neither is ideal though
I just had an interesting thought. Could ERA be layered with slat armour? Like. I know slat armour has to be optimized to shred warheads of a certain diameter. And those usually coincide with cheaper man portable anti tank weapons. Would layering them together be an effective way to save your ERA for larger, more energetic warheads that cannot be stopped by slat/cage armor.
0:24 AMOGUS
That's not how ERA works at all... It doesn't "increase the effective thickness" or produce a counter explosion as an opposite force to push against it, it doesn't "push more material into path of the flyer plate so that it must penetrate the full length of the plate". Heat warheads are extremely dependent on the precise geometry of the formed penetrator. Given that they are usually made from soft metals like coper and are placed under such extreme pressures and velocities that they behave like plastics, it is easy to disrupt their geometry, this crippling their penetration ability. When a explosively formed penetrator from a HEAT warhead sets off an era brick, the penetrator has basically already been formed. All ERA and NERA works by inducing a lateral(NOT OPPOSING) force on the HEAT penetrators AND kinetic penetrators to disrupt its geometry(thus structural integrity), this is why it is placed at an angle to the likely trajectory of enemy rounds whenever possible, even the big flat boxes have angled explosive sandwiches inside them. The decrease in penetration is not from pushing against the penetrator but perpendicularly, and it is not really a function of "increasing the effective thickness that penetrators must travel through", but of how much the era ruins the structural integrity of the penetrator. It also affects the trajectory of the penetrators(or of the resulting fragments of the penetrator) allowing the base armor to more effectively resist what was shot at it. All ERA and NERA works on the same principle for both HEAT and APFSDS. Also only the Ukrainian nozh and duplet contain linear shaped charges. Relikt and the Chinese copies of relikt and contact 5 do not operate like that.
He also failed to mention the newest a4 variant of the apfds for the 120mm cannon
That was actual before tandem HEAT charges was invented. Against them the only reliable way is to "push more material", like Ukrainian 5th generation "nozh" ERA does, basically creating a ton of near-90° angled, spaced metal sheets for a split second.
This design have high efficiency against tandem HEAT (which has less basic penetration, but effective against composite or ERA) and APFSDS shots. On the other side it is nearly ineffective against old, brutal "single-stage" HEAT (partially fixed by second iteration, which includes layer of "classic" ERA, but that barely works AFAIK).
P.S. that is not Ukrainian invention, but old Soviet design from mid 60s. But back then tandem HEAT was not even in design, and T-64 composite armor was more than enough to stop *any* APFSDS existed back then, so priorities were allocated in favor of maximum efficiency against the classic cumulative projectile.
P.S.2. AFAIK brand-new Armata ERA have same general design, but with possibility to set individual timings to any mini-charge in block, depending on type of incoming shell/shot/missile, increasing efficiency against APFSDS.
@@disketa25 that's not true. Era works as I described. Tandem heat charges are effective by making the era spend itself before the main charge hits. No matter how the particular era functions, if it explodes before the main warhead hits then it's useless. Nozh isn't effective against tandem heat, only duplet is supposed to be, and that's because it's basically just two layers of nozh ERA, one layer for each warhead. Look at the videos of how nozh/duplet works, it clearly shows that the linear charges in the era tiles are supposed to impact the side of the projectiles cutting or damaging them.
With the current goings on in Ukraine there are numerous videos of incapacitated Russian armour with ERA (of different versions) bricks in different conditions. Just wondering about the following:
- how safe is the ERA to handle in good condition?
- when the vehicle has been subjected to a 'brewing up', where the ERA shows signs of burning, how safe is it to handle?
- could ERA be reused in some other way and actually be effective. Off the top of my head, thinking burying it charge up with a box of, say nails or bolts or something else, with maybe a steel plate with a steel rod welded to it and suspended above the ERA more or less acting as a pressure plate.
Can you explain what role egg cartons play in the design?
Those are actually spacers on 4S24. They keep the sand, rubber, and explosives together. Some idiotic wannabe defense expert on Twitter claimed they were egg cartons
Unnecessary: Sounds like insulation most likely.
The bricks are Reactive Armour.They are actually Explosives.
When the tank...bricks are hit by missile...it Detonates thus Redirect ing the Energy of the Missile Warhead away from the tank.
like the M-1 Tank and the BIFV M-2s and A-3s, even the M-6 Linebacker only made like 80 or so it was a Stinger track vehicle with the M-242 25mm canon and 7.62mm coax mg, the reactive armor for the BFIV wight was 8000 lbs added weight was already 23 tons combat loaded and the M-1 Tank, like 62 Tons with no reactive armor but the skirts of the tank are all at one time the skirts was a secret, loss one had to go find it really fast too out here on Fort Hood, 1st Cav was the First to Field the XM-1 Main Battle Tank and 2nd AD was the first to field the M-2 Infantry fighting vehicle and the M-3 Scouts out armor vehicle was a master gunner for a Mechanized Infantry Battalion started as a platoon master gunner to the company master gunner E-6 E-7 to E-8 master gunner and Ops Sergeant S-3 shop, the heart of an ARMY is the Man who kills the Enemy close into and destroys, tanks and artillery can take the land but it takes an Infantryman to clear and hold that land SET UP for a Counter Attack tanks and BFV's has ID their primary and alternate firing sectors of fire Come On and Get Some you red deivls, we Have F-35 close in Air Support too and the LongBows too 4.2mm motors and the field arttilley to of M-109's 155mm Howitzer rounds and it depends on if our mission calls for Divsion Artillery Support with the MRLS one can take out a hole grad 1000 x 1000 meters
are you a dummy?
Nice armour idea by the Russians. So NATO decided to design a weapon that exploits the tank's other weakness....the autoloading system in the turret. Genius.
*Dude... what specific tank are you talking about? About the T-64 developed in the Ukrainian SSR or the T-72 developed in Nizhny Tagil (Russia) there are different automatic loaders, and as the experience of the war in Syria and Ukraine shows, it is practically impossible to hit the T-72 in the carousel of reloading, detonation occurs with additional ammunition which is not located in an automated ammunition rack, and therefore now they load ammunition from 22 shells only into the automatic loader, an additional 20 shells are not loaded into the tank, but this is not only a problem for Soviet tanks, Leopard 2 has exactly the same problem!*
*_Tanks T-64 & T-72 autoloading:_* ua-cam.com/video/ipc9BBodqC8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=sergoborisov
*_Leopard 2 in Syria:_* ua-cam.com/video/jpPpCWEZjSo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MilitaryTV
NATO developed tanks with less than WW2 armor like Leopard 1 while Soviet Union had T-64.
These are exactly like the german side plates used on the pzkpfw 3 or 4 used to pre detonate heat shells (I think)
Those are just simple steel panels, and the main purpose of their design was actually to defend against Soviet 14.5mm AT guns. ERA is completely different, and was only designed long after the war had ended
@@ArmorCast I didn't even know that lol 😂 thx 👍
@@infantryS04 the simple difference is that german panels trigger shells early, while era blasts the shell
Na.
Schurzen were to counter 14.5mm AT rifles which had just enough oomph to Threaten German medium tank side armor.
Contrary to popular thought spaced armor during the ww2 era ( hohoho ) could actually improve penetration of HEAT projectiles.....the science of HEAT functioning wasn't fully developped and the effects of standoff distance ( and its sister : piezo elecyric fuses ) was not properly appreciated.
Schürzen worked not in adding additional armor thickness (the plates were only a few millimeters thick) but in the plate destabilizing or deflecting the round, causing it to hit at a suboptimal angle and thereby losing much of its penetration. Not altogether different than the effect Gen 1 ERA was intended to have on HEAT.
I know it would not be on this channel, but is missile notching possible in warthunder? Plus the chaff is coming so it will be easier if possible.
What's that?
Notching is possible, but it refers to the radar, not the missile, and seeing as we have no active radar homing missiles yet, you’re notching the radar of the aircraft/SPAA. Seeing as it’s only this update that Gaijin is modelling pulse Doppler radar, you’ll finally be able to do it properly against aircraft like the FGR.2.
Chaff and notching are two separate things - chaff is more helpful when you’re running AWAY from the missile, when you’re notching it’s unnecessary
@@ArmorCast yup i saw this from dcs, i forgot that they were notching fox-3’s and y mixed up flairs and chaff, so my question is a mess XD.( I know flairs won’t do anything to radar)
@@trevon5653 Notching if basically flying at a constant distance reletive to a radar device, so it won't detect you/lock on to you. For radar to be able to detect you, a relative speed (the speed of your plane measured by said device) is needed. Look it up if you want to know more, it's kinda hard to pull off in WT but good to know if you like CAS'ing.
@@GielL96 oooh alright. Thanks
Ukrainian soldiers: ok let's spam the javelin.
O:37 an abrams with a cooler on the roof is one of the most American things I have seen.
*in middle of firefight*
“Out of bud light first sergeant!”
Well, we've all seen the Russian tanks in Ukraine. Turns out ERA does not protect you against NLAWs, Javelins and all the other ATGMs. Not to mention drones and artillery.
And the other thing we've all learned is that having an auto loader may mean one less crewman in the tank, but that just means one less person to die in a violent explosive death.
Western tanks have 4 crewman with a closed ammunition compartment. Much safer, instead a auto loader wich not have a enclosure compartment like the russian tanks have.
@@ronaldboonstra4834 NATO Style autoloader tanks are configured with a blowout panels. You can see this on the LeClerq Tank auto ammunition is actually under the blowout panel
Also the ERA on Russian tanks has largely been non existent thanks to corruption causing replacement with fake ERA or poorly maintained.
ERA protects against ATGMs. Against top attacking ATGMs any fancy NATO armor like Chobham or Burlington or whatever is useless too.
And we saw in Turkey and Saudi Arabia that Russian ATGMs can hit and destroy NATO designs without top attack ability. Straight through penetration.
@@BojanPeric-kq9etif bro knew bout APS Trophy, he wouldnt have said this kremlin bs lmfao
Like the 1/4" steel plates we put on our humvee's in Bagdad 2005.... useless, but makes you feel better while in it.
Excellent! Thank you for the upload!
New video! Awesome =)
Join the Discord peeps! its kinda lonely there at the moment =(
The tanks most vunerable part is the tracks. Just a strike to the first or last wheel cog and it's diabled to continue. Then you attack its turrets from the top.
In February of 2022, we learned that these bricks are not so much explosive as they are literal cardboard, if they’re Russian.
Actually any NATO anti tank system is designed to penetrate ERA and render it ineffective.
@@MrNintoku That is true, but there was one picture showing one of the tanks have LITERAL cardboard insides them, indicating rampant corruption.
@@MrNintoku That's not what I meant. Corrupt people in their military have literally been swapping ERA bricks for cardboard over the years.
Wow, you've seen one video where people say that it was filled with 'egg cartoons' and you instantly apply that for every ERA block in use, flawless logic.
@@Polygon-yug-9581 Looking at the sorry state of the Russian forces in Ukraine It's not much of a stretch to assume it's true.
We just found out that they are full of egg cartons
No, those are spacers
I'm getting a set for my Datsun.
The essence of fighting fire with fire.
Also can you make a video what are those cage looking bars on the tank armor for?
It's there to detonate HEAT rounds away from the tank's main armor. I'd assume they use bars instead of steel plates because it's lighter and cheaper (or at least lighter) than steel plates and in some cases such as the S-tank you might have to be able to see through it.
Absolutely none of the comments here have aged well😂 turns out those bricks are just full of egg cartons...🤣
As we,ve seen,they are actually bricks,as all the explosive has been sold by Sgt.Bilkoski
Thanks now I will sleep more intelligent tonight, I taught it was for new drivers when they destroy walls or houses they have the bricks to repair it right away. :)
Turns out they’re as much use as an ashtray on a motorcycle.
...that reduces the penetration of HEAT and KE projectiles by as much as 50%?
I love to see tanks taking jumps!
Those bricks on russian tanks are a waste of space.
Not such a waste when they reduce penetration values of HEAT and APFSDS by ~50%
@@arandomperson7713 so 50% of 1000 degrees is? still hot enough to incinerate your lungs, so ya dead.
Javelin go BRRRRRR
Very relevant comment.
Those are flasks for holding vodka. I put them on my car, and they are quite handy.
Packaged cocaine bricks, explodes on contact with a penetrator.
Ah yes early for class
Dude, why the uss anime tho
I would go with the uss big kitty
Gen 2 era (kontakt 5) has only one flyer plate not 2 , Relikt which is gen 3 era has 2 flyer plates and it's much more efficient against apfsds than k5.
there is always a race between weapons and armour, and weapons always win
awesome channel my dude
You know normally I hate accents in videos like these because they can be really, really, dreadful and hard to understand without subtitles. But you sound perfect no subtitles needed. Nice video friend.
I believe they are for taking the impact of a hit great video thanks
Thumbs up because I'm lovin' it! 🤣😂
Egg boxes 😏
So Tank and AT strategy is to put more layers of armor and more penetrators? I wonder what the tanks will look like in a few decades
A giant sponge of armor with a pew pew gun movin 2 km/second
You might say we are in the era of ERA :P
the turret looks cool and flat in t72 with ERA.
Yes and it's look even cool with
Shtora-1 active protection system
the gen 2 ones sound similar to the wedge on the leopards turret
Because it is. Called "Non Explosive Reactive Armor"
They are Javelin magnets......
I agree when javelin missiles see Russian ERA on tanks, they can't help it they simply dive into the tanks with explosions of joy
Tldr: egg boxes
Many photos of destroyed tanks with reactive armor that has experienced severe temperatures. Why hasn’t the reactive armor cooked off?
Serious question, does the tank crew come out unscathed if an ERA panel detonates?
Yes, of course. Wouldn't be much use otherwise. The ERA is designed specifically to detonate OUTWARDS and not cause any damage to the plates underneath it (besides maybe a bit of a scorch mark)
@@ArmorCast i doubt an ERA facing inwards would be able to even leave a dent on the tank's armor anyways.
The crew is probably seriously hurt or at least stunned if they're unbuttoned and partially outside of their hatches. That's one of the bigger drawbacks of ERA; forcing the crew to stay inside causes a certain loss of observation capability (how much depends on the model of tank, obviously).
@@jarink1 crew leaving their hatch open is close to number one cause of death for tanks in urban warfare... or just any warfare in general. It might feel better but it's way more dangerous. You have an armored box, take the hint and hide inside it.
Also no crew inside unbuttened is not going to get hurt. It's 300 grams of explosives, not a lot.
I have a question. Why doesn't (as far as i know) the leopard 2 use ERA
In a nutshell: it's because of the German military doctrine, which means infantry will always be near the vehicle's. If era explodes there is a chance it may create casualties on there own troops.
@@TheTryingDutchman IMO that's quite weird. Everyone in the world knows about the hull ammo the Leopards have so doesn't that make the tank more of a hazard to the infantry?
It uses NERA, with elastic materials instead of explosives.
Doesn't work real well does it
How do you know?
@@Polygon-yug-9581 War in Ukraine providing plenty of evidence. Have you been under a rock????
@@garesonc9672
Yeah, how so? I wouldn't try to determine the usefulness of the AK-74M, for example, solely based on the Russian Army's performance in Ukraine.
Now, regarding ERA, make your points clearly, and avoid these broad , bald claims, please.
@@garesonc9672
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Please, don't react to any more of my comments, and if I could suggest, _spend a minute to think through your life, and your decisions._
*I wish you the best, farewell!*
The bricks on the outside of the tank are different to the bricks the Russian soldiers must have deposited inside the tank when the tank was hit lol😂😂
The little iron blocks are very small.It is more easy to elevate the temperature of a small body since de air is a bad conductor of heat compare to metal,then the metals blocks can act like a match,when hitting with a projectile with high kinetic energy.
"Kontakt 1 have next to no effect on kinetic energy munitions"
Gaijin: I'm just gonna ignore that...
"the M829A2 and A3, and the DM53 are designed to counter kontakt 5"
Also Gaijin: Ignoring that...
The brick is explosive reactiver armor for high explosive shell or altteliry and the composite armor used to stop the apfsds round
With the “BV” suffix basically translating as “explosive” I’m not sure how I’d be convinced to climb into my T-72 “explosive”
V means explosive the b is just the specific model of the tank
0:45 Are you saying that's ERA on a Challenger not addon spaced armor??
Yeah, the stuff that looks like huge blocks on the skirts and lower glacis is ERA. You see it covering parts of the turret sides sometimes too.
ROMOR-A is ERA ROMOR-C is NERA
Composite armor with rubber expansion sheets.
Explosive and reactive? Sounds like my ex
I thought the Russian tanks were by themselves bricks. Thank you for enlightening me.
They are just targets for turkish drones 🇺🇦
@@augusto8821 or Ukrainian manpads
You mean those composite armour bricks, that remain attached to the Russian manned T-72 & T-80 turrets as they fly 25-35-125' thru the air...
Yeh, those one's.
Would double tapping a tank on one side defeat the reactive armor by destroying the bricks on one side, or do the bricks only explode individually somehow? Just wondering.
They’re calibrated to not cause a chain reaction, so only the bricks that are actually hit will detonate. You’d therefore have to hit the exact same spot on the tank twice, which is doable depending on the weapon, but not easy or reliable at combat ranges
Individually - most ERA has been notoriously insensitive (Kontakt-1 couldn't be triggered by autocannon fire)
So how does the ERA ‘know’ that there is a round incoming and when/which blocks to detonate out? Some kind of RADAR?
Nah it's just an explosive that detonates on contact with cumulative jet or apfsds dart.
Question: can small arms fire be used to detonate eras and open up attack for otherwise blocked rounds?
With the earliest forms of ERA, yes. Blazer and Kontakt-1 would go off to 12.7mm rounds, so in theory peppering a T-72B with shots from machine guns, or even a fighter's 20mm cannons, could open up a weakness that a TOW team could then exploit. More modern forms are built specifically to avoid this, even withstanding 30mm autocannon rounds without detonating
Came to hear about the equal rights ammendment...
What sort of impact is required to activate the ERA? Could you pepper the armour first with a 20mm cannon to explode the ERA and then fire conventional anti tank rounds?
The early types of ERA like Kontakt-1 or Blazer, yes. More modern types are not as sensitive, and are designed to only detonate to the force of a tank round, RPG or ATGM
I have one question: what will happen to those era-bricks when they are hit by shrapnell or machinegun fire?
Hope we get a definitive answer on that, but we're still collecting data. Takes a large number to draw conclusions. Here's to a large sample size.
I believe it requires 20-30mm+ to detonate it
Those are javelin magnets
Hmm maybe high explosive protection from he rounds
i havn't seen \
'double shot' comments: why not fire a shot at the same coordinates say 3 seconds later, then at a exploded not exploding armor - wouldn't you penetrate then (???). how many exploding perimeters does the tank have?
ERA.. Eggs removed from armour
eggs? you mean the "egg cartons" that those Twitter propagandists say replace ERA? those are spacers for the different materials of the ERA
ERA works well if your back in the old days but in modern wars are pointless, most western weapons are designed to bypass this as this armour is pretty much to stop like a standard RPG round not a complex anti tank launcher, plus these ERA are mostly found on sides and fronts of tanks and rarely on the back and as we know already the back of a tank is a mega weak spot and Ukraine has been exploiting this by firing launchers at the back of the Russian tanks which has no ERA and even if it did it would be useless, moment the Russians installed an autoloader in their tanks they were pretty much doomed from day one.
Back on any tank is weak spot, old RPG-7 and WW2 era antitank guns could wreck modern tank from behind. That is simply the compromise made in one era.
Doesn'r seem to work very well, does it?
It does, just not enough most of the time to counter top-of-the-line Western ATGMs specifically designed to counter it.