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Old July 28th, 2023, 01:17 PM

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Default MBT stats are slightly physically impossible

Long time, but I'll be banned fast.

Let's do some math on tank engine power vs weight.

Abrams frontal area is 10m2. That's 100 tons of steel to 1 meter. Let's double that for the rest of the tank.

It comes to 100 tons for 500mm. Now, the engine is 1 mw. The coefficient of friction for track to dirt is .5. So it can support 2 mw of static friction. Gravity is 9.81 per so we can support 20 tons of weight.

As you can see a tank is unable to move with 20-30 tons of weight, and furthermore it's weight for the claimed armor is 100 tons. We could reduce the Abrams to 100mm armor. 50mm if we want to to be somewhat mobile.

But I'm not criticizing the game, all the features are there, just noting it's physically impossible.
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