Newer triple charges are rated up to nearly 3000mm, including composites.

hwat?

where did you get *that* number

the best HEAT warheads are rated at *maybe* 1500mm

Last I looked there was a triple-HEAT with nearly 3000mm of penetration RHA.

and a 125mm diameter tank-launched one won't even break 1000mm

You can think that all you want until they do.

Chobham-type composites are 3,5 times as effective against HEAT warheads as against kinetic penetrators

since Russian KE penetrators go up to ~900mm of pen, their ATGMs would need to break 3k mm to be *as effective*

and with current tech, to achieve penetration like that you'd need a warhead so massive, you might as well use a 250kg bomb

Well the Russians certainly think they're good enough, and so does NATO.

That's what they want you to thin

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I'm going to go with triple-HEAT is rendering conventional armor irrelevant

Which is why we're seeing a huge shift towards active protection and nanocomposite alloys.

Even wiki calls bullshit on that one

800mm ain't shit against composite tank armor

NATO tanks had that much heat resistance since the late 80s

Oh yes, you just conveniently ignore that it *defeats the spaced and reactive sections*

It's for light infantry

Triple-warhead is good against modern ERA that are designed to counter tandem warheads

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but those are not mounted on tanks

Once you defeat reactive and spaced sections, the RHA equivalent of composite armor is basically nothing

NERA and NxRA is not multi-hit capable

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?