The armour of tanks is "strong" (https://t.me/ochen_zloy_chat/509688)!

 The armour of tanks is "strong" (https://t.me/ochen_zloy_chat/509688)!

A little over a week ago I disappointed many who were unaware with the facts that Soviet T-64, T-72, T-80 and the miscreant T-90 tanks are not as tough as has been presented for decades👉https://t.me/zloyodessit/18904

So, shall we talk about armour now?

The video that recently went viral on social networks is very revealing. T-72B3 turret was shot through by RPG-7 (https://t.me/ochen_zloy_chat/509688). In this case it hit the dynamic protection "Contact-1". And neither the passive armor nor the dynamic protection were able to prevent a through penetration!

How could it be!?!?

It's simple.

When I call the T-72 tanks a dead-end branch of tank development, many adherents of the cult of witnesses to the advent of the "72" claim that it is almost the best tank of all that was created in the USSR... Yep... The best on cross-country capability, mobility, platform development and... armor. Yep.

Here is a photo of armor compartment for combined armor of T-72B turret where packages of "deflector plates" are located. This scheme in the Soviet Union was thanklessly copied from the Leopard 2 tanks. Why it was a botch, I will explain a little later, but for now just explain why it is needed.

T-72 tanks did not immediately use the method of combined armor, but only after the Soviet modelers circle UVZ received access to classified information about a similar development of the Germans, which immediately began to copy the method.

The idea was to place a package of a wide steel plate, a layer of inert filler and a smaller steel plate. Such a package of 'reflective plates' allowed the weight of the turret to be lighter, while increasing its resistance to penetration.

But that's if done intelligently.

Of course, on the T-72 tank, it's all done through a... the bottle slot.

The thing is that in the Leopard 2 tank these plates were placed at a variable angle of 70 degrees, while in the T-72 the plates were placed at an angle of 90 degrees.

Thus, when hit in the turret, at a certain angle, the ammunition had a high probability of passing through the plates without much obstruction.

Therefore, the video of the T-72B3 turret being penetrated through by a trivial RPG-7 did not surprise me. The shaped jet "guessed" and burned through unhindered.

And you know what the most interesting thing is? The T-90 tanks, even the "M" modification "Breakthrough" have the same "deflector plates" layout as the T-72B tanks, because the T-90 is the T-72B after cheap plastic surgery and injections of Botox.

Armour is strong! 🤦‍♂️

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