Conqueror vs IS-7 | APDS | Armor Penetration Simulation

Simulation of Conqueror tank projectile hitting the turret front armor of IS-7 tank

120mm L1 (Tungsten Carbide core APDS) at 1410 m/s

vs

230mm 260 BHN cast armor at 36 degrees. IS-7 turret, less sloped area near the mantlet.

120mm Ordnance QF gun muzzle velocity - 1463 m/s. 1410 m/s refers to a distance of approximately 0.6 km.

[cuchococh]

UFP: I deflect 460mm shells
Turret: help subcaliber scary

[CarmineKarK]

This is around that time when people started to realize that adding a crap ton of armor didn't really matter for much and made people rethink how they did armor on tank's which would later lead to some pretty creative ways of adding more protection to tank's than just the typical *"Durrr I add more steel That'll work"* way's of thinking of WWII

[nikolanis]

Seeing that the velocity is barely 300 m/s after penetrating, I wonder how much more armor would be needed to stop it? Some 20-30mm extra?

[cookiecraze]

I can't believe that the conq, a tank designed to kill IS-3's and IS-7's, could penetrate an IS-7. Truly astonishing.

Still cool to see whether it would've, in practice, been good enough to kill an IS-7

[Ciao]

it went through so clean as if the armor was butter

[dr.raccoonphd]

Interested to see if the Japanese Type 3 75mm cannon would’ve actually been effective against a sherman hull :) great videos btw

[Treblaine]

IS7: "I fear no man. But that... thing... it scares me"
[loud maintenance noises]

[Sveta]

People need to keep in mind that this is the perfect scenario, few cm to the right and it's a non pen.

[alexsv]

I am not sure if this was asked already but, could you try and do one of the experimental WW2 German sabot rounds? APHEDS I guess, where a 88 shell would use a normal 75 shell as the sabot etc. Perhaps tested against the IS-3 or Jumbo Pershing (or T32)?

[ovhgermany]

good work dejmian, i enjoy your content keep up the good work :)

[Echinacae]

can you also fire some sort of block instead of a normal bullet with other parameters equal to a different test to show the difference?

[hoholu]

can you please add next time 1mm thin Al foil to see potential damage to crew? many thanks for your awesome work!

[pawegodman]

Great to see simulation of two of my most favorite tanks :) Thanks :)

[Halophile]

dont need the witness plate for that one

[maxkennedy]

Still incredible to see armour grade steel splash like a liquid around the initial impact point

[kamilszadkowski]

How about a 115 mm round (BM-6) of T-62 against T-72M1? Seems appropriate given the circumstances. Front hull or the turret, your choice.

[gossogames]

Could you do a super high velocity projectile (around 5-10km/s) against a meter or two of concrete? Im curious as to what would happen if you hit concrete fortifications or rock face with a railgun

[JordanLewis]

Show this to War Thunder; after they nerfed APDS and the Conqueror in particular. Its 120mm APDS is performing worse than the Centurions Mk. 10s 105mm APDS currently.

[tonyennis]

When a projectile penetrates but the tank isn't destroyed, how is the hole repaired?

[SToXC_.]

what about vs is7 upper hull frontally?