shell normalization and spaced armor deflection?

[KodiakUltimate]

my question is does warthunder calculate for normalization of shells due to their velocity, or does it just calculate for effective armor? second does it account for shell path divergence of angled spaced armor? where a shell passing through spaced armor can lose it's inital velocity and flight path and suffer from reduced penetration, or does it pass through each untill it hits a thickness it cant pen or bounce on,

[Mr Teddy Bear]

I don't think anyone else has thought so deeply into this... But I believe when you penetrate a tank, some of the velocity of the shell is used for penetrating the tank first and depending on the shell, either explodes to damage what's behind it or bounces of a module behind it into either the roof or modules above. I think it does take these into account but I probably explained that pretty badly... I know in tank combat it's very tactical and knowing where to shoot to either kill the crew in one shot or at least get most of them.

[ohener]

Shells do lose velocity whenever they pass through a layer of armor. In general though 60mm of spaced armor is never going to be as effective as a 60mm solid plate.

[SilvaDreams]

Publicado originalmente por ohenry415:

Shells do lose velocity whenever they pass through a layer of armor. In general though 60mm of spaced armor is never going to be as effective as a 60mm solid plate.

Actually it would, it's the angle of the armor and the shell hitting it that is what counts as it alters the effective thickness of it but flat on it will always be 60mm no matter what.

Every time the shell penetrates armor it looses velocity according to the armor it passed through and fragmenting if exceeding the correct thickness (I've shot clean through lower tier tanks and blown up the guy on the otherwise with minimal damage to the original target)

[REVOLVER]

Shooting at spaced armor in anything except a russian tenk is useless, Tovarich in his tank can pen anything, if you try and pen a spaced out armor plate on a tank it wil probably bounce right off it.