Still even when combined with the base protection of a T-55, it wouldn’t provide any protection against modern tank rounds or tandem-charge HEAT warheads.
The reason why you mostly don’t see rivets on tanks is because when they get hit they explode outwards like shrapnel, so the whole “let’s rivet 1cm steel plates on this tank” thing probably just made it worse (Edit: outwards from blast zone and not from the tank itself)
Yes, 20’s and early 30’s tanks had riveted armor, and it was even worse than you said, because after hit, even if the armor was not penetrated, the rivets exploded inwards, injuring and killing the crew (iirc italian and japanese tanks were biggest offenders at this in WW2 since most other nations got rid of such tech before WW2).
Did they just… riveted some armor to it?
Even UA flags are chewing them in the comments.
It looks like some form of Blazer ERA.
Still even when combined with the base protection of a T-55, it wouldn’t provide any protection against modern tank rounds or tandem-charge HEAT warheads.
The reason why you mostly don’t see rivets on tanks is because when they get hit they explode outwards like shrapnel, so the whole “let’s rivet 1cm steel plates on this tank” thing probably just made it worse (Edit: outwards from blast zone and not from the tank itself)
Yes, 20’s and early 30’s tanks had riveted armor, and it was even worse than you said, because after hit, even if the armor was not penetrated, the rivets exploded inwards, injuring and killing the crew (iirc italian and japanese tanks were biggest offenders at this in WW2 since most other nations got rid of such tech before WW2).
I’ve seen NAFO members guiltily laughing their asses off at this