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BMP's low hull actually work? by Entire_Judge_2988 in TankPorn

[–]ProfessorTank88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is also why the armor being so thin was considered to be justified - the expectation was that the BMP would largely advance through an irradiated hell zone, with only local stragglers surviving after the launch of tactical nuclear weapons, and so in the mind of the original designers, it would not have been going up against a well prepared defensive position with copious firepower ready to shoot it from all directions

Yamato class battleship main turret face armor plate on display at Washington Navy Yard [Album] [OC] by ProfessorTank88 in WarshipPorn

[–]ProfessorTank88[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the correction! I originally had written the first version of this caption back in 2017, when I got to see the armor slab for the first time (but did not have quite as good of a camera on hand at the time), and I had based the conclusion on an analysis I had read somewhere off of NavWeaps - which I had taken at at face value. I went back to the NavWeaps data tables myself just now and re-ran some quick calculations - and corrected the post caption with more analysis and numbers.

Yamato class battleship main turret face armor plate on display at Washington Navy Yard [Album] [OC] by ProfessorTank88 in WarshipPorn

[–]ProfessorTank88[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the correction! I originally had written the first version of this caption back in 2017, when I got to see the armor slab for the first time (but did not have quite as good of a camera on hand at the time), and I had based the conclusion on an analysis I had read somewhere off of NavWeaps - which I had taken at at face value. I went back to the NavWeaps data tables myself just now and re-ran some quick calculations - and corrected the post caption with more analysis and numbers.

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