Sloped armor: A simple feature that saved many lives

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• DA

  @DarknetDude · 4 years ago

  Some people spend their entire lives pursuing romance instead of pursuing the one thing that really matters. Sloped tank armor.

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• JU

  @juanzulu1318 · 4 years ago

  Actually, the advantages of slopes were already known in the high middle ages as we see in armour and castle tower designs.

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• FC

  @FCISAviation12 · 4 years ago (edited)

  We can all agree that first sloped armor is great for tanks IF they have high quality steel and if they have a powerful gun. Second Simple History's animations are getting better and better

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• SH

  @Shinzon23 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I wouldn&apos;t necessarily call this a simple idea,because even though it seems simple in Concept, in order to do it requires a <b>lot</b> of design work, as you are needing to make compromises to get the slope to be at a useful angle, which massively cuts down on the interior volume and thus limits what you can have internally.<br><br>The whole &apos;sloped Armour is better&apos; thing is actually been known for a long time, at least since the dreadnought battleship era &nbsp;if not even before, but the problem is no one could figure out a way to justify the expenses that sloped armour puts on the interior volume of whatever you are designing, so it wasn&apos;t used in many applications until the interwar era designs and the pressure cooker that was WWII

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• JU

  @julesbenedictcatalan4904 · 4 years ago

  The animation is getting better and better every new video comes out

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• MA

  @mandarin1257 · 4 years ago

  Fun fact: due to several factors, the protection of sloped armor increases sharply at around 55°.

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• EA

  @eaststarling7805 · 4 years ago

  There is a thing called a shell trap on some tanks, where the shell can ricochet off an armor plate, and go straight into a flat or weaker area of armor, which the shell can penetrate, &nbsp; &nbsp;which can result in the death of the tank.

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• D_

  @D_U_N_E · 4 years ago

  Reminder: <br>Sloping tank armour removed interior space.<br>The thickness accounts for both the roof/front. While flat armour can have very thin roofs with much thicker fronts.<br><br>It&apos;s better, but not to the degree people think.

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• CA

  @captain_commenter8796 · 4 years ago

  “When I’m doubt, turn it a few degrees to the side”<br><br>-Sloped Armor engineer, probably

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• VI

  @viceralman8450 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The T-34 is an excellent example of the advantages and disadvantages, been the disadvantages an extremely cramped interior with few internal storage, also how blind a tank has to be &nbsp;shot at 27 times, also the 37mm was able to eliminate T-34 they destroyed about 2.000 at the beginning of &nbsp;Barbarossa, this due to the extreme tempering of soviet steel which cause &nbsp;spalling &nbsp; &nbsp;in the interior without penetration ending the crew inside.

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• QA

  @qaterdargon4041 · 4 years ago

  The fact that a T-34 let itself get hit 23 times by a getman anti tank gun speaks volumes to how blind T-34s made there crews

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• SH

  @shaider1982 · 4 years ago

  I think some &nbsp;warship armor, as discussed by Drachinifiel, is also sloped.

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