do they cut the armor plates open to replace it?doesn't it mean they need to be sent back to the factory for it? some soviet tanks have ceramic balls suspended in the turret during casting, are those turrets a complete write off the moment they're damaged? sounds insane to me
>expanding foamEnjoy your rust
>>64281347duct tape
>>64281358it's just to hold the NERA in place until the plate is replaced
Looking back, I wish modular armor had been available sooner.
>>64281383Modular armor is the answer but depot servicing the whole part is what's done. You have a percentage of damage it's not 1/0, fucked up armor might protect some still. To get back to base? Pile scrap and mobiks on it or something.
>>64281358Does foam encourage oxidation more readily or something?
>>64281358I doubt they give a fuck annon
>>64281498I don't know about foam but a mate used silicon to glue on a body kit and it ate trenches into the panels.
>>64281498It traps moisture which can lead to rusting.>>64281518You mean silicone. That contains acetic acid, which is why it smells like vinegar.
>>64281347>some soviet tanks have ceramic balls suspended in the turret during casting, are those turrets a complete write off the moment they're damaged?they were never used for the exact reason they were hard to produce, hard to replace, and hard to repairthe T-72 ended up just using a 3-layer composite armor of conventional steel and textolitelater ones ended up using just steel laminate for the hull and NERA on the turretreplacing NERA panels is something you do at a depot, where they replace a damaged panel with a new one this isnt particularly complex but it isnt something you can do in the field, like patching steel armor
>>64281347>some soviet tanks have ceramic balls suspended in the turret during castingWhat, why?
>>64283071>What, why?>Ha ha balls
>>64283071Supposedly the glass/ceramics inserted or encased in the armor offers some additional protection from HEAT rounds and high velocity kinetic perpetrators.
>>64283071Composite armor, works in theory the same way chobham does where the ceramic breaks up the molten metal jet from a shape charge
>>64283099the jet isn't molten
