T-14 Armata's Armor is Worse Than We Thought?

Recently we have been getting a lot of information regarding the armor of the Russian T-14 Armata tank, and it might not be as good as people originally thought it was.
We got several images of testing of the new Explosive reactive Armor, unique for the T-14 Armata, as well as pictures showing the empty hull and turret, giving us an insight into the armor layout and thickness.

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[elzheimi]

It is also protected by a warehouse 1000km away from every frontline.

[LatinaGaming]

Honestly, nothing will be known about the tank until an angry russian leaks the manual on warthunder

[KV--pd]

this means, according to gaijin, it must be impenetrable from all angles.

[lutendoxd]

They really made that "No armor is best armor" build💀

[sangmoon]

They don't have to worry about the armor if they don't build the tank

[tirushone]

Gijian's research guys seeing these images: write that down! write that down!

[ubeuser]

Lazerpig: the t-14 armor thickness is less than the honda jazz armor

[silexa]

T-14 Armata gonna be in War Thunder before it sees the actual battlefield

[eddypan]

1stRussian scientists "how can we protect it from fpv drones"?

2nd Russian scientist "we can build a metal shed around it"

[squareboxcat]

Makes much more sense how the t14’s weight is so low, now that we know it’s not some super armoured pillbox people said it was.

[uwillnevahno]

1:32 There's an incident of a Bradley using its autocannon vs T-72 during Desert Storm. It wasn't more than an effective distraction w/HE until the Wingman completed a reload drill on the TOW system (*IIRC).

[LDB]

Any future tank design has to incorporate electronic attack and defense in addition to anti air capacity. Failure to incorporate this will result in a $200 FPC drone blowing up your fuel tanks

[nton]

Seems like active protection and fpv drone defence is more important at this point, armour thats just good enough to prevent carastrophic kills so crew can escape and tank cheap enough to allow for easy replacements

[nikosthanopoulos]

Small note, from what I've seen, the later T14s do appear to have thickened the frontal armour imo. The Era looks fully aligned with the track fenders and there is an overlap of armour on the nose where the angled plates meet. But honestly, it doesn't matter because I still believe these are all pre production models and the overall armour layout could very well change. The important parts in testing at the moment are the hull/suspension/engine and electronics. Lastly, this could well be one of the many tank types produced in limited quantities only to end up with a different vehicle heavily influenced by testing. It could be one of those. What's important about the Armata project is the scope of building many different vehicles with huge number of common parts which will pay dividends long term. Of course...who can read the future, right?

[liquidhalo]

Videos about T-14 like this remind me of videos breaking down science fiction space ships. They don't exist either.

[emirbenaissa]

I'm a structural simulation engineer and tbh yes simulation came a long long way. But nothing beats real world testing. Imperfections, manufacturers process defects, and real life conditions can vary from slightly to greatly, so thats to be taken into account.

[scrubsrc]

Dont forget we are assuming the hard kill system actually works

[catonpillow]

I think, at this point, Armata will be skipped for something much lighter and drone orientated.

[TheArklyte]

So... they just copied Object 187 hull? And it took them two decades to do so?

[ImRandomDude]

last time I was this early, Crimea belonged to otomans