The actual STEEL as in what the tanks are made of might be correct. My concern (now apparently) is that the armor doesn't seem to take into consideration the increased protection offered from the Composite Armor (
CA) (
DU/TUNGSTEN/Specialized ALUMINUM/KEVLAR etc. either separately or in combination.) tiles they are built with. Again ERA
is not CA these are separate applications that can be used in combination but, are still not the same.
I do know that the M1A1HA+ did have it's
frontal armor array improved over the M1A1HA. Array implies
multiple facets and the sources I looked at indicated those improvements related to the CA and DU backing tiles. Now I wonder, are we spinning our wheels here? But I think Don said this issue wasn't considered in assigning armor values to the games current armor.
Well you'll probably be thankful for this answer versus the one I just lost.
Remember when writing long you have to log back in again normally not an issue your post well, posts. If however you log incorrectly, you can re-log in however if you didn't know before, you will lose your post. Well that's 45 minutes I'll never get back-oh well tomorrows another day!
John will be grateful and Don wishes it would've happened to a post meant for him!?!
Regards,
Pat