I assume this must be somewhere spicy due to the censorship done on these images. Well done for remembering your OPSEC Anon.
As for the armour, track skirts on the side and on the roof isn't a terrible idea, as it might help protect the wheels from shrapnel or AM bullets and it might provide JUST enough protection to the roof so that a small shaped charge will kill most of the people inside instead of all of them.
I really don't think that the tracks over the view ports will achieve anything apart from making it harder to open them though, so I'd ditch that part.
One thing you'll need to keep in mind is whether you have enough spare track to get away with this, as any non-battle damage you receive will most of the time involve the tracks getting worn, jammed or just slipping of the road wheels. Unfortunately any actual AT weapon will just blow you the frick up, so this is the thing you should be keeping in mind when using tracks for armour.
Actually pretty kino if we were in WW2 where it might provide just enough resistance against light AT like rifles when it comes to thin skins like the MT-LB but yeah. That's not going to really do much to a modern shaped charge warhead. Double DSHKs are cool for area targets I guess.
innefective. Track steel is has lower Br hardness than actuall armor plate. It will stop shrapnell and rifle calibre rounds, but for everything else it's just more weight on the Yamz-323 traktor engine.
Which would actually probably be somewhat useful since mt-lbs side armor can barely stand up to basic rifle rounds.
But then again, pushing artillery tractors to combat roles really does tell you about the state of Russia's supposed endless fleets of t-72s and bmp-2s.
Track armor?
6 pdr APDS at the nose plate @ 24 deg (102mm)
Striking velocity of 3530 ft/s results in a complete defeat on bare plate.
With a length of panther track fitted (only track available) a strike at 3665 f/s only caused code C damage, indicating that a defeat would occur only at very short range.
6 pdr APDS at turret sides @ 40 deg (82mm)
Striking velocity of 3365 ft/s results in complete defeat of armour.
With track fitted (Panther) Negligible damage was caused to the turret side at striking velocities of 3373 ft/s, and 3670 ft/s the latter representing a fairly short range.
At 30 deg a round striking at 3507 ft/s resulted in code C plate damage.
In order to check if this is an effective method, in March of 1944, a T-34 upper front hull segment (part number 34.29.304) with track links attached was tested at the NIBT proving grounds.
The shooting was done with an armour piercing 75 mm shell fired from a German gun (PaK 40) with the muzzle velocity of 770 m/s.
Trials showed that the front of the hull protected by track links can be penetrated by the German gun from 800 meters, but not from 900 meters. The unprotected part of the hull can be penetrated from 1000 meters, but not from 1100 meters. Therefore, the tracks increase protection by 200 meters.
I assume this must be somewhere spicy due to the censorship done on these images. Well done for remembering your OPSEC Anon.
As for the armour, track skirts on the side and on the roof isn't a terrible idea, as it might help protect the wheels from shrapnel or AM bullets and it might provide JUST enough protection to the roof so that a small shaped charge will kill most of the people inside instead of all of them.
I really don't think that the tracks over the view ports will achieve anything apart from making it harder to open them though, so I'd ditch that part.
One thing you'll need to keep in mind is whether you have enough spare track to get away with this, as any non-battle damage you receive will most of the time involve the tracks getting worn, jammed or just slipping of the road wheels. Unfortunately any actual AT weapon will just blow you the frick up, so this is the thing you should be keeping in mind when using tracks for armour.
Desperation/10
first naval mount, now twin dushka and track armor. poor, innocent mt-lbs getting abused and tortured by some welder maniac somewhere in donbass
More of a Chaos than Ork vibe now.
It's probably pretty ineffective but damn, I got to admit it looks sick.
3/10 for armor 8/10 for the sick ass track armor.
>Tfw you remember the recent thread where you argued tracks would be used on the side of armour vehicles but not the front
I feel vindicated.
Just put ERA on top of the tracks and you have an effective armour layout.
Scavenge some kontakt-1 and do this then you get the super mtlb
Hinged ERA would protect the vision blocks while leaving a narrow vision slit.
DoubleDushka is based.
She's in her prime/10
probably the only Russian APC that can actually stop .308
Actually pretty kino if we were in WW2 where it might provide just enough resistance against light AT like rifles when it comes to thin skins like the MT-LB but yeah. That's not going to really do much to a modern shaped charge warhead. Double DSHKs are cool for area targets I guess.
paint it red and add some waaagh cutouts and it'll be stylish enough to put on a miniature.
Sand bags and cement block armor when?
RIP gearbox
innefective. Track steel is has lower Br hardness than actuall armor plate. It will stop shrapnell and rifle calibre rounds, but for everything else it's just more weight on the Yamz-323 traktor engine.
Which would actually probably be somewhat useful since mt-lbs side armor can barely stand up to basic rifle rounds.
But then again, pushing artillery tractors to combat roles really does tell you about the state of Russia's supposed endless fleets of t-72s and bmp-2s.
Track armor?
6 pdr APDS at the nose plate @ 24 deg (102mm)
Striking velocity of 3530 ft/s results in a complete defeat on bare plate.
With a length of panther track fitted (only track available) a strike at 3665 f/s only caused code C damage, indicating that a defeat would occur only at very short range.
6 pdr APDS at turret sides @ 40 deg (82mm)
Striking velocity of 3365 ft/s results in complete defeat of armour.
With track fitted (Panther) Negligible damage was caused to the turret side at striking velocities of 3373 ft/s, and 3670 ft/s the latter representing a fairly short range.
At 30 deg a round striking at 3507 ft/s resulted in code C plate damage.
In order to check if this is an effective method, in March of 1944, a T-34 upper front hull segment (part number 34.29.304) with track links attached was tested at the NIBT proving grounds.
The shooting was done with an armour piercing 75 mm shell fired from a German gun (PaK 40) with the muzzle velocity of 770 m/s.
Trials showed that the front of the hull protected by track links can be penetrated by the German gun from 800 meters, but not from 900 meters. The unprotected part of the hull can be penetrated from 1000 meters, but not from 1100 meters. Therefore, the tracks increase protection by 200 meters.