Comments on: STB-1 – model and armor

By: Comandoriv

Comandoriv — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:49:17 +0000

T10 pta capable of bouncing some shots from its mantlet rather then no shots at all

By: Xelos

Xelos — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:38:11 +0000

And the PTA is a great tank, it could use some minor buffs though.

By: Xelos

Xelos — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:34:27 +0000

Because a medium tank with turret armor and serviceable mantlet should get equal or more depression than leopard… I think not.

By: Gugushev

Gugushev — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:16:54 +0000

:Facepalm:

Just saw that the source for this thread is Daigensui’s article, published here on FTR, really sorry :)

http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/08/31/stb-1-japanese-tier-10-medium-tank/

By: Gugushev

Gugushev — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:06:23 +0000

It’s L7 clone, all western tanks of the era were armed with L7.

By: Gugushev

Gugushev — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:42:22 +0000

I am no expert on this, just read it on English wiki (I know, I know, don’t trust the wiki :) )
Also the Russian forum has this thread:
http://forum.worldoftanks.ru/index.php?/topic/1010369-%D1%82%D1%82%D1%85%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5-%D1%8F%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE-%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE-%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0-10-%D1%83%D1%80-stb-1/
with this info: Скорострельность будет выше по сравнению с другими 105 мм орудиями других СТ 10 лвл.
Этому будет способствовать вспомогательный механизм заряжания – возможно это будет похоже на барабанную систему заряжания, только медленнее, и после разрядки барабана возможна стрельба в сниженном темпе

In English: The RoF will be higher than other 105mm guns on tier 10 medium tanks. This will be happening due to additional loading mechanism – it’s possible it will be similar to drum loading system, only slower and after unloading the drum it will be possible to shoot with reduced RoF.

Is there any truth in this information?

By: UnFriendly83

UnFriendly83 — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:25:57 +0000

You do know I am talking about the T-64 with a 125 mm smooth bore gun, and some kind of composite armour?

Do you really want to face that with a Leopard 1 that only has an improved turret that will still not protect the tank from the T-64′s gun?

And in any case, the devs said they wont add smooth bore guns, nor tanks with composite armour.

The closest we get is the object 430 that has no composite’s or smooth bore, and I doubt that WG are going to allow us to have any upgrades like the A3 Leopard turret, or stillbrew on the Chieftain, ever :(

One thing that I am dreading about the Chieftain, is that shell normalization is going to make the tank useless. It does not have thick armour, it relies on sloping, 85 mm hull @72 degrees = 275 effective – 5 degrees = 217 effective.

The turret is not going to be thickly armoured either, but will have a good ballistic shape, but again shell normalization will hurt it bad.

I would not be surprised if Conqueror is better protected than Chieftain, thanks to how shell normalization works.

Sorry for going off topic! just had to get that off my mind.

By: Ultrasonic2

Ultrasonic2 — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:16:11 +0000

Looks good but it has a huge week spot on the front and the commanders hatch .. However if it has the same gun as the E-50 or leopard then im sold.

If it has a low pen inaccurate (Russian) gun then why bother

By: Hornet331

Hornet331 — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:34:30 +0000

because they actually have armor, if it is really only -6°.. say hello to T10 clone of PTA.

By: Daigensui

Daigensui — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:23:48 +0000

There was no autoloader as in the French/American ones.