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Hi Wdll,

This is from the game guide:

Units when fired on from the flank will often turn to face the firer, thus presenting thicker armour and/or locating previously unspotted firers.

IIRC, your AFV has to pass an experience check - or something - and then it faces towards the firing unit, giving it a better chance of surviving.

Then a more recent update in the 5.0 release:

5) When tanks turn their hulls to face an enemy that is firing they no longer turn the hulls directly 90 degrees which generally increases
their chance of survival by increasing the angle of attack for the shell.

Your AFV now has an even better chance of survival because there's more chance of a glancing blow, and the angle presents thicker armour than facing the incoming ordnance directly.

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