Sep 8, 2023 · A HEAT shell fired at very long range will have the same amount of armor penetrating potential as one fired at point blank. At the time of it’s invention, it was a massive breakthrough because you don’t need a huge gun to shoot a …

The gap may detonate the ballast cap of the shell, and may cause the armor piercing shell to tumble before it hits the armor, greatly reducing the penetrating effect. It also causes HEAT rounds to detonate their shaped charge early, which greatly reduces that concentrating effect of liquid metal against the armor.

Dec 7, 2022 · A HEAT shell is basically an explosive shell with a special metal cone on the front which is "injected" through armor by the explosion. As such, there are two ways for a HEAT shell to kill things: The initial explosion, which is very effective against poorly armored vehicles.

Dec 21, 2021 · HEAT is a different animal; despite the better penetration, higher ricochet angle, and complete lack of penetration falloff, the lack of normalization and the likelihood of stacked spaced armour or tracks completely absorbing the shell mean that, unlike with APCR, there are times when you don't want to shoot HEAT.

May 16, 2018 · Note that this is a tandem charge heat shell; disregard everything you see after the second explosion. Tandem HEAT is basically two HEAT shells in a row; one penetrates the first armour, the second penetrates any secondary armour behind the first, or explodes inside, becoming an APHE-style explosion. Anyways you'll see here that after penetration, the hot …

Oct 12, 2018 · Primary heat charges are not strong enough to compare favorably to casually slapping a secondary heat charge on a shell. Combined with airgaps hard countering heat, using them as a primary thing is kinda iffy. Heat should primarily be used as a …

Jul 16, 2021 · The difference is that HEAT - although short for High Explosive Anti Tank - isn't actually a high explosive shell but rather an armor piercing shell while HESH - High Explosive Squashed Head - is comparable to a HE shell.

Dec 13, 2022 · HEAT and HEAT-FS shells are perhaps the hardest to master. When played right, they can consistently ammorack and disable vehicles, but require good vehicle knowledge. APDS is a shell I love more, but both has their uses.

Apr 1, 2021 · I find that the best shell to use against fast and/or small targets is a 90mm heat shell.. I use them in belt fed autoloaders and I like to use those with tracers. Super accurate at around 800rpm, and heat damage doesn't care about distance like ke shells do. I used those extensively in small and medium ships in my current campaign to great effect.

Mar 23, 2022 · Except overpressure, heat and hesh are so immensely bugged that you cannot apply simple rules like that. In addition the overpressure mechanic is linked to the shell, it's a property line like "overpressure = true" or something similar.