lyle6 wrote:
See that gouge on the entry hole? The one that looks to be made by a slanted impact.
The projectile is supposed to arrive at close to a flat angle maybe a degree angle of descent at most, with the witness plate inclined at 60 degrees more or less. For the projectile to gouge the armor that way it must have a positive tilt relative to the armor surface...
A 10 degrees relative tilt is enough to reduce penetration by 20% - 20 degrees to 50%...
And is it just me or is the armor dented further below...
Look at the direction the removed plate is bent in, it is upside down. That taken into account the holes align such that the incoming projectile would be fired at zero elevation.
The thing I am not sure about is if the second plate is infact penetrated, that they did not remove it from the mount suggest it was not.
One other thing I noticed is that the ERA on the newer model T-14 seemed to get up to twice as thick as the ERA shown in this test.
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Ofcourse this assumes that the ERA is mounted in a similar way to Relikt.