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).
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).