dan/california Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 One T-90 just blitzed my entire stryker platoon..... in about one minute and ten seconds. If the Abrams is even worse, is there any meaningful difference between a platoon of them and a visit from the grid square removal service (MLRS). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzersaurkrautwerfer Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 A light wheeled APC is not going to do well against a tank. Just FYI. All MBTs are pretty challenging to fight in CMBS. M1s are just very challenging. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 You need a tracked vehicle against the T-90. Say, a Gavin! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzersaurkrautwerfer Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 A Gavin is less a vehicle and more an avatar of spartanlike air warrior battlebox ideals. It is our only hope. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 I knew that, The dang thing came in as reinforcements in an otherwise empty corner. I had decided to move my way back javelin team like two turns before because he a hadn't had a sniff of anything in 20+ minutes. It was a rather catastrophic mistake. It smokes two Strykers in15 seconds, the one javelin with a shot crosses it up, and the team is vaporized by the air burst. I mean like OOW. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 You need a tracked vehicle against the T-90. Say, a Gavin! Oh funny man! Please go polar bear hunting with a pocket knife... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUCASWILLEN05 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Going up against a T90 (or any other MBT) with a Stryker is not a very good plan! You need to dismount the infantyr somewhere very safe and don't forget to bring your ATGMs! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 That was the plan......... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 I recall reading Israeli casualty statistics for the Yom Kippur war some years back. I was struck by how much higher the tanker casualties were than the foot infantry casualties. That was because infantry knew better than to get in the way of a tank battle. Call us when its over! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Oh funny man! Please go polar bear hunting with a pocket knife... Seriously though, Chris thought he could ambush a T-90 with a Stryker MGS in one of his streams. It... didn't work out well. Skip to 1h13m for the turn: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaress73 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 an Oplot coming from nowhere tried to do the same thing to my BTR-82As, it got zapped with some penetrations by two 30mm cannons at close range.. he got one of the BTRs, damaged another but had to retreat because it took too much damage ... I finished it later with a dismounted RPG team from the infantry 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Joch Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 you thought Russian armour would be a pushover? This is not CMSF. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusto Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 One T-90 just blitzed my entire stryker platoon..... in about one minute and ten seconds. If the Abrams is even worse, is there any meaningful difference between a platoon of them and a visit from the grid square removal service (MLRS). HAHA, i think i know what scenario you are talking about, the same thing happened to me . I had my Javelins in overwatch and i could kill the 2 T-90s within a minute, but not before they had taken out 3 of my Strykers + one of the Javelin teams. TRhe t-90s got 4 shots of and every shot killed its target. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikalugin Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Killing strykers is not hard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaress73 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I think his point was that the T-90 was so quick and accurate that his overwatch Javelins did not have time to react and save his striker platoon before they could kill the T-90 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macisle Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Speaking of killing, I've had a T90AM put a round clean through the front turret of an Abrams (mine!), exiting out the rear of the turret. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaress73 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Where on the turret ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusto Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 (edited) I think his point was that the T-90 was so quick and accurate that his overwatch Javelins did not have time to react and save his striker platoon before they could kill the T-90 Yeah, that was my point. In CMSF the Syrian T-62s and early T-72s spot so badly that as long as you have Javelins in overwatch, your soft Strykers can operate without too much interference by the Syrian tanks. The russian T-90s in CMBS are a different story though. They are pretty much like scaled down M1A2s, they spot really quick and are able to hit everything with the first shot. Edited February 2, 2015 by agusto 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusto Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Where on the turret ? I dont have any hard numbers available, but judging from my experience in CMSF, at close range even a T-72 can penetrate an M1A2s turret frontally. It just needs to be really close, <200 meters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macisle Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 (edited) Where on the turret ? I can't remember where the front hit decal was, but the rear exit was dead center. The two tanks were facing each other, with the Abram's hull slightly at an angle. The range was pretty close to 1,000 meters. It was a lucky shot. Edit: Oh, forgot I grabbed a screenie of the rear. Here-'tis: The turret is facing where the tank was that killed it. Edited February 2, 2015 by Macisle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaress73 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 looks like it hit the gun mantle according to the exit hole .. that's a weak spot yeah.. the svinets-2 will penetrate the gun mantlet easily with energy to spare. If i'm not mistaken, one side of the frontal turret is less armored also to accomodate optics. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaress73 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 svinets-2 can penetrate 730-780mm at 2000 meters.. so at 1000 meters its probably close to 800-830mm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikalugin Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Gun mask area? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I think he means mantlet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_mantlet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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