After World War II, the main battle tank, the arrangement of the armor at the front of the hull is no longer the previous Tiger type, etc., vertical middle armor, but divided into two types: the first to meet the bomb and the first to meet the bomb.
What is the first to welcome the bomb? Mainly refers to the way in which armor plates are placed above the front of the hull.
The typical tank is the Soviet system, and some tanks such as T-64, T-72, T-80, and T-90 all use the first to meet the bomb.
The main features of the first to welcome the bomb:
1. The main reason is that the probability of being hit by the head is much higher than that of the head, and the armor is concentrated on the head through the first load.
The front armor of the T72 tank can be seen to be much thicker than the upper part of the head.
2. The front armor defense is prone to loopholes in the driver's position, which is called a coin port by armored gamers. For example, in the picture below, the Challenger tank is the first to meet the bomb, and you can see that the upper armor is very thick, but the driver's compartment buckle has a large hole, but the Challenger is also a rare large crotch.
The Challenger's cockpit is an important weakness.
3. The front armor has a high inclination, the driver's vision is good, and the attachment armor can continue to be added on the head without affecting the field of vision.
Most of the Soviet tanks were the first to be fired.
4. The first armor is thin and the angle is large, and the passability is good, and the Soviet system is generally naked under the head, but the challenger is an exception, because the area exposed by his head is particularly large, and he likes to add additional armor when fighting, and the ability to pass after adding it has obviously become very poor.
The Challenger tank pretends to have additional armor.
5. The first defense is poor but acceptable. The distribution of weaknesses of the T72 tank can be seen, concentrated in the driver and under the head.
The weak divisions of the T72 tank can be seen, concentrated in the driver and the underhead.
What's the first thing to do? On the contrary, of course, it is fed from the bottom of the hull.
Typical tanks are the Abrams of the United States, the Leclerc of France, and the Type 15 tank of China, all of which adopt the first-shot approach.
The main features of the first welcome bomb:
1. The space utilization rate is high and the space of the crew is large, so the United States generally has low requirements for the height of the driver, and the Soviet Union has high requirements for the tank driver, generally no more than 165.
2. Although the armor on the head is relatively weak, it has a large angle, and it is difficult to penetrate from the front, but it is easy to be penetrated from above, but generally the US imperialists have air supremacy, so there is no need to worry too much.
Frontal armor of the M1 Abrams.
3. The driver's vision is relatively poor, for example, we look at the driver's seat of the Leclerc tank.
France's Leclerc was the first to take the lead.
4. The thickness of the armor in the front part is large, the angle is relatively vertical, and the pass rate is relatively poor, otherwise you think that the cement pile of South Korea's K2 one meter can't pass?
The South Korean K2 tank was also the first to hit the bomb.
5. Because of the field of vision, it is difficult to arrange the accessory armor on the head, and it is not conducive to air defense, for example, our plateau panther, there is no place on the head that can add additional armor, and it is all added to the head.
Our 15 tanks are the first to meet the bombs.
Why is the battle between the two ways to welcome the bullet important? Because the impact is very far-reaching, for example, the combat mode is different, the Soviet tank generally carries the barrel to rush up, the first to meet the bomb, the American tank likes to use the terrain to fight down, which also indirectly determines the battle between the internal and external artillery shields, because the outer artillery shield has a large depression angle, you can talk about it later.
Even the technical route of composite armor is different, the American M1 can use thicker Chobham armor, and the Soviet system mostly uses ceramics or other materials, and the thickness is thinner.
The American M1 tank used the terrain to defend itself, and the gun had a large depression angle.
The Japanese Type 10 tank was the first to be fired.
So the question is, is my country's main tank system the first or the first to meet the bomb? You can leave a message to discuss.