unlike ERA, NERA doesn't lose effectiveness against HEAT that easily

Once ERA blows it's done, so all you have to do is get a precursor charge to detonate it before your main warhead pens the armor proper

And yet NERA is not multi-hit capable

Which is why we're seeing a shift in armor to ceramics like boroncarbide

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but NERA arrays continue expanding for the few milliseconds it takes for the main charge to detonate

you can't delay the detonation or your warhead will squish against the steel

That's exactly how T-HEAT works

which is why tandem never had significant effect against anything but ERA

It literally stages the charges

yes, and it may be enough against fast-acting ERA

not against slower-acting NERA

Well apparently it is.

Again, NERA is being phased out in favor of cermaic liners.

Where?

The new whatever generation of MBTs

5th gen?

even the best ceramics can't do the job alone

there is no evidence of NERA being phased out, merely supplemented

By the way guys, I want to see who wins this debate so at the end, we should poll how many people had their minds changed

Oxford style debate

Okay so 4th gen MBTs

BOI

I had to check

We don't know shit about the 4th genners armor

3rd gens are being supplemented

shit's more classified than aliens

It's really not

There's a handful of materials they can use

It's all coming down to nanoalloys that exploit carbon shenanigans

Which works out honestly because they're also really good radiation absorbers, so it cuts down on NBC protection weight.

There is still no evidence of them being used

We have no credible info on the armor of any Abrams since the M1A1HA

Here's your evidence, all the 3rd Gens are being reinforced with nanoalloy armor kits

we have no clue what the Germans will use for their 4th gen

We know the Type 10 is being built entirely of nanoalloys

The Germans don't know either, since they have 2 companies competing for the contract

We know the Armata uses a mixture of various nanocermaics

We also know that by weight nanoalloys are something like ~3x more effective than RHA

The type-10s armor was a weight-saving measure only, as main island nip bridges fold like buildings in Hiroshima

NERA has been 3,5 times as effective as RHA by weight since the 80s