Why is sloped armor considered useless against APFSDS? how does that work?
Military Hsitory visualized and the War thunder wiki say 26-29 degrees, but that doesn't see right at all. Looking at the tank, it seems to be sloped at about 60-70 degrees. Am I just not using the right point of horizontal measure or is the side armor really sloped much steeper?
I haven't been getting penned through my ufp in my panthers, and I've been bouncing off the hulls of jumbos, but the protection analysis says the Panther's main gun can penetrate a jumbos hull now
Dear War Thunder community! I am asking for your help in this post. I tested the armor on the Panther in test drive and it seems to be possible to penetrate the hull armor of the panther with the T-34-85 (D5T) but I remember that it was not the case before. I tested the M4A3E2 Jumbo armor with the Tiger H1 and it seems to possible to penetrate the hull armor with the Tiger's better shell without aiming at the MG port. I would like to know if this was the case before or I am the one who remember incorrectly.
If the iron clad CSS Virginia of 1862 had sloped armor then why did we need to go all the way through to T34 of 1941ish to get sloped armor on tanks?
So if you watch this documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28vougAE7LM you easily with an observant mindset view that iron clads hundreds years of ago in another age, the age of industrialisation and so fourth, iron clads had, what we intelligent people of today call the, sloped surface to protect incoming bullet rounds or other incoming ballistic objects from piercing through the armor that protects the vulnerable men and ammunition stored inside of such crafts of destruction and mayhem.
If the ammunition inside explodes its over you can say good bye to your wife and kids so its understandable why you would want to protect the inside from outside opposing forces. And its such a cheap way to protect yourself like you just take some armor cut an angle into them and put it there and when the surfaces align volla you have a sloped armor. Its easy to understand if sloped armor is so easy to obtain that people of 1861 could come up with it yet when we look at tanks we see people did not think of it until much much much time was spend like so much water had been flowing in the rivers before tank craftsmen got the idea of having sloped armor.
Hey tank nerds*. Another honest question: Why did German heavy tank design late in the war move away from sloped armor? I'm thinking of the Tiger in particular, but there may be other, better examples. Seems like the use of sloped armor to increase the effective thickness was an incredible innovation. Did they anticipate simply outclassing Allied anti tank weapons anyway, and discard the design constraint?
- I mean this as a term of respect. I've learned a lot about the history of tank design in this sub, and I really appreciate it.
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Firstly: I am not using mods, only latest vanilla build on Steam/PC Secondly: I don't want mods or add-ons
Then: Are there any design tutorials on how to fit together the different types of sloped armor? They all have different degrees of sloping and I would really like for them to fit together smoothly. Creating spaceships with different sloping wings and armor is a pain in the neck..
Any halp, links to tutorials etc. is appreciated!
Does anyone think they should add the mechanic of APFSDS shells shattering on high sloped armor what would normally cause a in game ricochet this would prevent APFSDS shell from bouncing into the turret of the L2K M1 and probably a couple other tanks in game
The old ironclads of the Union and Confederacy had slopes, and seeing how in WW2, the T34 had quite an effective sloping armor, I was wondering what were the fundamental issues (be they scientific or not) that dissuaded modern navies from having them post 1860s.
For example, the American 75mm M61 APCBC goes through 81mm of armor at 0 degrees and 36mm of armor at 60 degrees at a distance of 500m, while the Russian BR-350A APBC goes through 71mm of armor at 0 degrees and 29mm of armor at 60 degrees at the same distance.
However, when you use protection analysis on a T-34, the front plate has an effective thickness against the M61 APCBC of around 80mm at 500m, while against the BR-350A APBC, it only has an effective thickness of around 55mm at that distance.
Why do capped shells have worse performance against sloped armor and is this reflective of real-life performance?
I'm doing a (short) paper on sloped armor, and I have a weak grasp of how it helps. I know that the angle of the armor increases, the thickness, and you would need more metal due to angling it so that the sheet of metal could be fit in the same spot. If anyone could help me know how it works, that would be much appreciated.
