The ERA really does make that big of a difference wow. When it's intact the damn thing can tank a DM53. I'm genuinely shocked that this still uses the same T-72B composite layout and was never upgraded.
Funnily enough the T-72B has the *wrong* armour in game. In game is the well known (and absolute sh!t) 60-NERA-NERA-60-10-50 layout, which only came in around 1989 (therefore the T-72B 1989 has the correct armour) while irl it was 60-15-15-15-50 or 60-10-10-20-20-50 (10's, 15's and 20's were High Hardness Armour plates with 15 or 10mm of Air gaps in between) which alone, without any kind of ERA, could eat DM33.
@@saucy743 in my comment I was referring to hull armor. I'm assuming that's the turret armor you're referring to? I thought the hull used textolite but yeah the T-72B was also the first Russian tank to use NERA in the turret. Sorry just a bit confused about which you're referring to.
@@RedVRCC nope, i'm reffering to the Hull armour. The Turret armour is insanely different. The T-72B uses a Cast turret with NERA cavities filled with reflector plates.
@@saucy743 shit, wow then that better hull armor should also probably be in the T-90A and M then too? The armor in game already seemed pretty good especially when paired with heavy ERA.
@@RedVRCC Indeed it should. However as i've heard the current 60-NERA-NERA-60-10-50 Armour layout was specifically made for (or around) the Kontakt-5 ERA (on the T-90M it was replaced by Relikt). Albeit, the 60-10-10-20-20-50 would be the sensible go to to be Fitted on T-90As and Ms. Better yet it's preformance could be near doubled if the air gaps between the plates were fitted with Textolite, Ceramic or even more Steel.
it would be necessary to test the composite plate of the Wz123A and the ZTZ99A these 2 tanks have the same value of composite armor on the front plate but strangely the ZTZ 99A resists the Dm 53 when shooting under the headlight
@@neon4ik594 I did other tests and as a result the ZTZ 99A is the best armored tank on the front plate against apfsds without ERA even the Strv 122+ is not as protected on the front plate it resists aspfds of 292, 695 mm pen at 0 meter in the front plate
It's not very accurate from point blank, because the shell strikes at a more favourable angle. Try doing the same from even 200 meters and the results will certainly be more accurate.