Tiger I With ERA VS T-34-85 | Armour Piercing Simulation

This simulation shows the impact of the 85mm BR-365K APHE-T with hardened steel body being fired from a Soviet T-34-85 tank at a range of 0.2km, targeting the front hull of a German Tiger I tank equipped with the Russian Relikt explosive reactive armour. We called the upgraded version Tiger IR.

The 85mm gun used on the T-34/85 was very similar to the Soviet 85mm AA gun, which was tested by the Soviets against the Tiger. This testing showed that the 85mm could penetrate the Tiger's front at 1000 meters.

The Soviets first started researching reactive armor in 1949 but a miscalculation resulted in all the test subjects being blown up and further research was canceled.

While recent ERA shows a great protection against APFSDS and tandem warheads, its effectiveness against old AP arounds was not tested. We can see that the high hardness plates of the Relikt reduced the impact velocity before even the detonation of the explosive element and worked as spaced armor.

The 4S23 explosive elements distorts the angle and velocity of impact which makes the 102mm armour job much easier.

The impact of such reactive armour on 122mm and higher AP rounds may be less but not negligible leaving the fact that the introduction of explosive reactive armour in world war 2 would have significant impact on the battlefield.

These experiments took more than 140 hours.

[joxering]

Im pretty sure the ERA exploded quite late in this simulation

[Quang_Tran_asdf]

So it looks like the ERA will be most effective against long and thin shells, which rely a lot on its stability.
It can still reduce penetration of APHE rounds, but the effect is much less significant than a thin APFSDS

[luftwaffels]

I like your little movies in the beginning :)

[ezdaboss]

Try a t-34-85 with relict or contact 5 against a tiger 2?

[America_Thunder]

0:52 slobed armor was such a great invention 😂

[mr.waffentrager]

the explosives helped pen the armor lmao it normalised the shell.

[ivansenpaid]

I mean its a full ap shell. Not what we usually see on the battlefields.

[betterlatethannever]

now we need to try relict+t34 against the tiger

[ReviveHF]

General Dynamics staffs : We should bring back old school AP rounds but think of a way to increase the velocity to pen composite armour.

[vonShluker]

Не учитано качество брони Тигра 1. Поверхностно закаленная, а внутри мягкая и гибкая. Именно поэтому многие танкисты предпочитали Тигр 1 Тигру 2. Борта и корма были куда более защищенными, да и в лоб советские снаряды брали далеко не так часто, как это тут в идеальных условиях показано.

[MAZEMIND]

I would like to see more videos like this.

[dominuslogik]

I would like to see the M103 120mm APCBC shell tested against a T-55 up armored with Relikt or contact 5 but lacking the composite add on armor.

[XJ_Jeeps]

What do you use to make these videos? Is this an app or something you came up with??

[Sandman]

I ike the new animtionns at the begining of the videos

[Geskawary]

it still likely caused some spalling inside tiger

[WhatTrigger]

As stated by a few others. Been a short stubby round that's full calibre, the ERA loses a lot of effectiveness.

Would be interesting to see what a modern 120mm full calibre AP round DU or tungsten (aka theory round) launched at around 1600m/s would do to current MBT composite armour without ERA
or the 2A5 turret with the added cheek amour thats designed to stop APFSDS

[aztrader]

Hmm, I'm not an expert or anything I just casually play WT. From what I've seen in the game the rounds explode upon penetration which kills the crew and damages the rounds inside and causes explosions and shit. I kinda recognize that md8 fuze(?) round I remember there's also md5 fuze shell apcr? or aphe. What does the fuze mean anyway

Someone enlighten me on this one.

[MrSlientdeath]

It looks like the era is helping the round normalize to the armor.

[renzjosephremo]

Try relict or kontakt 5 against some early apfsds

[СтаніславКротюк]

T-34-85, with dynamic protection, against the Tiger or Tiger I