OOB 024 -- US Army -- M1A2 Abrams

[Listy]

trust me on this, they're not. There's pictures of RPG's embedded in them.

The attachment is a Picture of a Cr2 that got brewed up in a blue on blue incident when a HESH round went down the CO's hatch. The tank has obviously burned, and yet the armour panels are still in one piece.

[Marcello]

I cannot see the picture, I get the usual file not found. Still it would not rule out ERA. For a start if it is ERA it is an enclosed design, like Kontakt-5, rather than Kontakt EDZ style flying plates. So even if there is something stuck in the outer layer it does not mean that it does not work like ERA inside. Then it is not supposed to detonate as soon as something sneeze at it, for obvious reasons. It may well be non sensitive enough to resist some amount of fire.

[Marek_Tucan]

IIRC the Russians have put once a show for the press where they did ignite the fuel cells over the fenders on a T-80U (or were that Ukrainians? Same difference in fact) and the tank remained fully operational, the ERA also didn't go off IIRC.
This being said, I frankly dunno what that thing on CR2 front is. It looks like ERA but so can NERA look like so I am waiting till somebody discloses the Truth(tm)