Mike E

Since when has Zuk been on this forum, lol. 
 
The first diagram Met749 posted is probably the most accurate in regards to T-14. It would make no sense for the layout to be otherwise (ie heavily sloped like the T-64 and onward) because of the new use of ceramic composite armour. I suspect that the external ERA is mounted upon a thin outer layer of metal/armour, which is then followed by spacing and finally the composite. It makes the most sense. 

Bunch of trash from both sides of the aisle today, the state of political debate is pathetic. 
 
Sit Spencer and your average commie down in a room, film it, and show the world for all to laugh. Neither will have a constructive argument.
 
Unfortunately this entire event will silence debate even further, and RIP to those that died.

T-90 M
 

I didn't watch the video, but the "Putin Makes Me Scared and Wet" quote on the thumbnail is pretty magical and I'm definitely not getting the intended meaning from it.

Russian hackers attack against glorious Kharkov website! Stop Putin's aggression against peacefull Ukrainian tank production!

And similar picture with Object 490A

Soros spelled backwards is Soros. This confirms my belief that Mr. Soros is actually George Soros. Lizardmen demon Jews from the dark side of the moon confirmed.
I've only seen a portion of that interview in the past so far, but starting your life out by conspiring with Nazis during the Holocaust is never a good start. The thread so far sums up my impression of him. That, and he likes to throw money around too, often to suit his view of where the world should be headed.

MoD announced today (14.11) that Omsktransmash and St.Petersburg Special Design Bureau of Transport Engineering will repair and modernize T-80BVs with new FCS (Sosna-U), armor and improve engine. First vehicles will be delivered to MoD in 2017.

Germans talking about someone else destroying the world 

Because there's been a lack of Polandball or something
 

My uni is in rural MO, so local salt levels were low.  There certainly were people talking about being upset that Trump got it, but nothing amusing
 


 
 

 
Meme war service ribbon for those who have earned it
 
 
Talking to some Hillary supporters last night and earlier today, plenty of them still seem stuck in the mindset that the US is being taking over by women-hating, minority-lynching hicks.  I'll admit I wasn't around much at the time to know how it went down, but I can't help trying to compare these sorts of leftists to how the religious right was.  I imagine one thing Trump had going for him was people were getting tired of the PC culture shenanigans and decided enough is enough.

Nice thread, would be a shame if someone deleted it

I'm all stocked up on bleach, here goes nothing. 
 
At this point, all I care about is that A Leppo hits 5% nationally. 

I'm all stocked up on bleach, here goes nothing. 
 
At this point, all I care about is that A Leppo hits 5% nationally. 

If she did, we'd all be found having committed suicide by shooting ourselves in the back of the head three times during a plane crash.

Hillary Clinton just tried to have SH assassinated!

I think the glacis armor is NERA, only the armor above the tracks is a single plate. This was already the case with the Strv 122 and Leopard 2E:
 

 

 

I think the side armor is mostly NERA and not ceramic armor. Compared to the Strf 9040C (CV9040 with AMAP) and Leopard C2 (Leopard 1A5 with MEXAS):
 

 

 
Lot's of small bolts to hold the NERA plates... quite similar to the Leopard 2A5 turret armor module. It's definetly NERA on the Leopard C2, based on the article "Lightweight passive armour for inantry carrier vehicle" published by F. U. Deisenroth and Richard W.O. Kwok in the 19th International Symposium of Ballistics.
 
My guess is that the differences in appearance as the result of further enhancments. The Leopard 2 Evolution used an older version of the armor; maybe the later version of the Evolution armor package feature a thicker coverplate (made of steel or ceramics covered by thin steel) atop of the NERA. The Leopard 2SG seems to feature only parts of the turret armor, maybe some part was left out in order to keep the tank within a weight limit or something similar. 
 

Interesting. Based on the old brochures from IBD Deisenroth's older homepage, AMAP-B has a mass efficiency of more than four, while AMAP-SC has a mass efficiency of 8 to 10. If these claims are true, I could believe that the protection values for the PT-16. I wonder how Rheinmetall does know the protection level of the Leopard 2A7 though, and why they are allowed to say that their tank provides equal protection... that's somewhat a breach of opsec.
 
So now we need only a proper measurement in size (how much surface is covered by each armor module) to estimate an areal density.
 

It's a matter of costs and workload. They already could have replaced the sideskirts with the slightly thicker ones of the late Leopard 2A4/Leopard 2A5 a few years ago,

Gurkhan said that mounting 2A82 in Proriv-3 was only some wishes by MoD at some point not backed by money and development program.

BMP-2, BVP-M2 SKCZ/Jackal and Czech T-72

When your country is invaded by hordes of Russians and Buryats, they only option is more Dakka.
 
Or no Dakka at all.

 

I think a primitive version of this was done during the design of the Abrams.  Some sort of iterative simulation process.
 
I recall this being the reason they ditched the idea for the 25mm coax.  The sims somehow showed it wouldn't be very useful.

Sargon is pretty based on these type of videos. He doesn't know jack about economics or even some political functions though.