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I will translate it soon, briefly Soviets acquired live M60A1 in 70-s and Chieftain in early 80-s. They studied them very closely in all areas. Concerning armor they discovered that Chieftain is not that evil monster they considered.

It has maximal 250 mm armor LOS and can be penetrated by T-55 from 500 m, from T-62 from 1600 m and from T-64-72-80 from 3 000 m.

 

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20 minutes ago, EnsignExpendable said:

Why bother trying to blank out the caption and then giving up halfway?

 

The way they uploaded the book was really weird. Some of the pictures had their captions retained the others did not.

 

edit: The caption might have been yellow originally but they just converted it to black and white.

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Armor protection of the tanks of the second postwar generation T-64 (T-64A), Chieftain Mk5P and M60

 

Technical data on soviet 1-st post WW2 generation of tanks, Like T-54, T-55 and T-62 are well known and well described in literature. But what if Soviet “premium” tanks of 70-s era were engaged into real combat against western tanks in Europre.

This article provides description of "Object 432" (T-64) and T-64A tank combined protection (composite armor, anti radiation and chemical protection) in comparison to western designed tanks – “Chieftain” Mk5P and M60A1. Information on T-64 protection includes technical project (presentation) dated 1961 and technical drawings from various periods. Information on “Chieftain” Mk5P and M60A1 tanks is a result of study of captured tanks delivered to USSR in 1970s and beginning of 1980-s, published in technical reports of that period. The importance of information is the common testing criteria based on Soviet approach to tanks testing and protection design. This article contains mostly direct citations of facts and numbers published in reports with some comments.

 

 

Well, suppose this is a useless task.

Prepared a first article in English, but translating this materials is very complex task in question of terms.

Will be grateful is anybody assist in corrections of this material (terms and so on).

 

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http://btvt.info/3attackdefensemobility/432armor_eng.htm  

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Very informative, thank you. It's interesting to compare the performance of chieftain to the specifications:

The requirements were written around resisting a more powerful 100mm gun firing AP at 1000m/s at a range of 640m, and they mostly achieved this goal. The relative weakness of the hull sides shows that the performance of the 100mm gun firing AP was underestimated by the british at large impact angles, but the quick introduction of substantially more powerful guns by the russians meant that that oversight was of little importance.

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5 hours ago, Xlucine said:

 

The requirements were written around resisting a more powerful 100mm gun firing AP at 1000m/s at a range of 640m, and they mostly achieved this goal. The relative weakness of the hull sides shows that the performance of the 100mm gun firing AP was underestimated by the british at large impact angles, but the quick introduction of substantially more powerful guns by the russians meant that that oversight was of little importance.

 

The U8TS 100mm rifled gun, beloved of tier X WOT players, that graced the object 430 prototype and others actually just was a roided up, longer-barreled D-10T.  The 115mm U5TS is a much scarier gun.

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