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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?

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