What is Sidescraping?
What is Sidescraping?
Side-scraping simply describes the method of angling your side armor at a steep angle toward your opponent while keeping your front protected.
What is reverse sidescraping?
The reverse angling technique is a variant in which the tank is sidescraping with its rear oriented towards the opponent. It is normally used on tanks with forward-mounted turrets in order to create better angling for sidescrapes.
What the best angle for a tank armor?
Remember that the front is your sturdiest part and your tank profile is the smallest when facing the enemy. Slant your front left or right by 30-40 degrees. This way you will decrease the impact angle, thus boosting your armour effectiveness and ricochet chances.
What is side scraping in world of tanks?
Side scraping is when you angle your tank in line with a building or other object to hide most of your hull, angling enough to create a bounce and poking out to shoot your target.
Why is tank armor sloped?
The reason sloped armor is so effective is that it increases the effective thickness of the plate, without adding weight to the tank. This plate of armor is only 100mm thick, but because of the way it is angled back, the effective thickness of armor that a shell would have to go through is twice that of the plate.
Why is sloped armour better?
Sloping the armour leads to a better approximation of the ideal rounded shape. The final effect is that of deflection, deforming and ricochet of a projectile. When it hits a plate under a steep angle, its path might be curved, causing it to move through more armour – or it might bounce off entirely.
What is a hull down position?
In modern armoured warfare, hull-down is a position taken up by an armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) so that its hull (the main part of the vehicle) is behind a crest or other raised ground, but its turret (or a superstructure or roof-mounted weapon) is exposed.
Why do modern tanks not use sloped armor?
Sloping an armour plate makes it more difficult to penetrate by antitank-weapons, such as armour-piercing shells (kinetic energy penetrators) and rockets, if they follow a more or less horizontal trajectory to their target, as is often the case.
How thick is the Abrams armor?
For the base model M1 Abrams, Steven J. Zaloga gives a frontal armor estimate of 350 mm vs armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot (APFSDS) and 700 mm vs high-explosive anti-tank warhead (HEAT) in M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank 1982–1992 (1993).
How does Chobham armour work?
Instead of rounded forms, the turrets of tanks using Chobham armour typically have a slab-sided appearance. The backing plate reflects the impact energy back to the ceramic tile in a wider cone. This dissipates the energy, limiting the cracking of the ceramic, but also means a more extended area is damaged.
