Western tanks with ERA armour in Ukraine

[+Gepard 12,410]

For the Ukraine terrain we have western tanks, like Abrams, Leo1 and 2, in the basic shape, as they are used in the western military. I the last year the ukrainians found out, that the armour protection of this tanks was not good enough to defeat russian ATGM or bigger drones, like the Lanzet. Thatswhy they fitted the tanks with Kontakt 1 ERA blocks from soviet times.

Here some photos:

This Abrams was captured some day ago in Sumy region. It has ERA blocks on the turret front and sides, but no side skirt.

This captured Abrams has massive thick side skirts.

So does the Abrams look with ERA and folded turret cage, short after delivery

Here a sideview with unfolded  cage. Good to see is the massive side skirt.

Leopard 2 with ERA blocks on turret and side skirts. Nice to see the anti drone jammer antennas on the turret roof.

Perhaps one of our talented modders could make Abrams and Leo 2 models in 2025 standard.

Edited Thursday at 03:48 PM by Gepard

[Righteous26 70]

Look up the M1 TUSK and TUSK 2 modifications that the US used in Iraq. The fourth picture looks like TUSK blocks on the skirts. The issue with putting all that ERA on the M1 is that it quickly exceeds 70 tons total. This would cause it to bog down in muddy terrain.

[+EricJ 4,372]

I wouldn't mind seeing some of the newer stuff in the game too, need to update it and stuff.

[Wrench 10,219]

in the meantime, maybe as a stop-gap measure, data ini edits could raise/increase the armor protection.  I'd double the thickness, and make sure TITANIUM is used. Apparently, that's the strongest material we have in game.

I remember when doing the up-armoring for the original Desert Strom mods, it took 3 rounds from a T-72 to kill an Abrams

[simonmiller416 2,245]

huh, it will takes two weeks to ctrl+c and ctrl+v

[+streakeagle 888]

M1's sent to Ukraine had their advanced armor plates removed to prevent capture by the Russians, not unlike export T-72's sent to the middle east that didn't have their advanced laminate armor plates installed, which allowed M60A1 tanks to 1-hole them with 105mm at maximum range.