Werewolf Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:42 pm
AJ-47 wrote:The Bazooka Plates are not going to stop the RPG, but to activate it before its hit the main armor. Even on the Armata you can see the plates that have ERA on top of them.
Yes, such spaced armor helps to decrease the shaped charges optimal distance to actual armor which it needs to form an optimal penetrator and by that decrease its maximum penetration capability, but on APC/IFV side armor even the weaked shaped charge warhead won't be effected by just spaced armor, it will still penetrate into the vehicle, therefore ERA is necessary.
I don't like the idea of the carousel that holds the ammo to risky if the tank gets hit.
1. Why they didn't use small loader, maybe for 6 rounds for immediate fire, and the rest of the ammo will be under the floor and reload the small loader all the time?
2. is the round is in one piece, or it has 2 pieces like artillery gun?
Actually the ammunition behind main armor is far better protected than in unarmored ammunition bustles on turret backside, which is already very weak and can be penetrated with any 20-30mm AP round and igniting its interior. The only problem would be how to prevent in case of penetration and ammunition explosion that the shockwave is reduced to a minimum without damaging armor or killing the crew just through the shockwave, that would be my question.
1. I am not sure appreciated such system would be and it wouldn't change a thing for your concern of ammunition storage in the chassis, you just would have reduced the rate of fire but still have planty of ammunition in the chassis.
2. I guess it is one piece ammunition like Grifel that has a vertical loader, maybe with an option for older 125mm rounds of two pieces, but that is all speculation.