Re: Reactive Armour in winMBT
Oops, I only now saw you did say 'bounce of the SIDE of a T72 turret', not the front.
Did some more checking, side armor for T72's goes from 20 to 42 although most have 40 (russian ob again). Should be enough for a milan to go through IF you hit it at a right angle and if no other anti-heat protection kicks in. But side hits are often angled, leading to quite high relative armor scores. The turrets are also designed to help deflect rounds (and/or its blast) besides just stopping them. I'm not sure if and how that's incorporated in the game but I can well imagine that the more angle, the bigger the chance of getting a 'bouncer'. Combined with the variable actual penentration of HEAT rounds it may well have been that the low actual penetrators hit but didn't get through and the high actual penetrators bounced off. Which would have made for a lucky T72 indeed!
Narwan
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