Then why not just use NERA it will work perfecly unless the enemy can somehow hit the same few square centermeters consistently.
Over the years the Soviets and Russians have worked to improve ERA. The first models tended to explode violently and often took out nearby blocks simply because of sympathetic detonations.
The real skill has be improving the design over time using less explosive for the same or better effect, and making the explosive less sensitive so that it wont explode unless it needs to... ie 50 cal AP rounds wont set it off, but 120mm AP rounds will...
For use on lighter vehicles like APCs and IFVs the lower explosive amounts made them more effective and useful as they become more like NERA.
The problem of course is that the mechanism they use to reduce penetration means they can't be matchbox size munitions, but look at any tank hit in combat or target hit on any tank range and it is rather rare for stationary targets to have multiple hits in the same place... even less so for a moving tank target, so the risk of an enemy hitting a target ERA panel twice is actually rather low.
The newer panels don't blow off and apart from a small hole might look intact after a hit... meaning working out where to hit it again would be a problem even if you could.
Whether the new ERA blocks can actually function after being hit once... I have no idea... I would doubt it.
And there is nothing saying that you can't use NERA moduels wjich are easy to replace.
Which raises the question... if the outside of the ERA and NERA blocks don't deform and don't "blow off" then why not stack them?
Would ERA on top of NERA still work?
Many tanks have main armour that is NERA, so it should, but an external NERA plate... would that do even more?
And of course APS before any of it... protection levels look pretty high to me.
Thier duplet ERA package increases the weight of the oplot to over 50 tons. Its a new production tank just make the armor thicker you retards.
They have the luxury of most of the more powerful diesel engines from the Soviet period being made in the Ukraine... if it adds 5 tons weight but greatly increases protection then it might be worth it... especially if it is available and easily replaceable...
Anyway when will the T-90 recieve a hardkill APS? Russia has had them since the bloody 1980s.
When it enters a conflict zone where the enemy might have anti armour weapons that warrant its use...
So does this mean that a relikt block has hundreds of tiny explosive charges and penetrator "scissors" that do the job of one whole K5 block?
My understanding is that it acts a bit like NERA because it has a lot less explosive and it is less sensitive, not that the charges are separated, or that it can take multiple hits.
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