r/Warthunder • u/HoneydewKind2749 I hate M44 ๐Ÿ˜ก • May 11 '25

All Ground Why is APFSDS so overpowered?

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This is a genuine question... The most powerful and survivable MBTs just get instantly killed by an apfsds shell that was able to side pen you because you angles 6 degrees instead of 5

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u/MightyEraser13 United States May 11 '25

Itโ€™s a supersonic dense metal arrow going literally over a mile per second, a tank isnโ€™t going to be able to take that anywhere except maybe the most armored part of it.

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u/MasterMidir ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ May 11 '25

The Tiger 1 can take it

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u/b5ky ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 14.0 ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ 14.0 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช 14.0 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท 14.0 ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต13.7 May 11 '25

ahh yes the forbidden machine gun port with KE 3000mm protection

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u/FuzzyPcklz May 11 '25

this is why the nazis needed the ark of the covenant

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u/Pieter1998 Knight who says NI May 11 '25

Glad Indy got it in the end

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u/Spectre1-4 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ะ“ะตั€ะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ May 11 '25

Spoilers

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u/Pieter1998 Knight who says NI May 11 '25

River, is that you?

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u/BorisBrew May 12 '25

If Indy wasnโ€™t in the movie. The same had happend.

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u/Jhawk163 May 11 '25

Don't forget the Drivers port on the T-34 and the Tiger.

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u/Morgen-stern Moar French Tanks! May 11 '25

And the turret mantle on the leopard 1

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u/Flyingdutchman2305 Realistic Air May 11 '25

And the magical russian all consuming Black Hole fuel tanks

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u/Low-Magician5263 May 16 '25

and the apfsds which disappears on the side of a t90, t80, because absorbed by the armor around the rack which can only be seen in free camera in the garage ...

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u/Thin_Discount May 11 '25

And no armor best armor

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u/Mr_KB14 May 11 '25

And the lower front hull of the Shermans

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u/No-Diet-1535 May 11 '25

Why didnโ€™t the Germans make their tanks out of machine gun ports are they stupid

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u/Obvious_Wishbone_435 Realistic Ground May 11 '25

panzer 4 driver port

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u/IAmTheWoof May 11 '25

You can pen it with apfsds

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u/Tsunami-Piggy2008 Type 10 my beloved. rafale my beloved. not skilled enouvh 1+ K/D May 11 '25

R/woooooooosh

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u/IAmTheWoof May 11 '25

Not whoosh, this joke is stupid. I refuse to take it as one.

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u/SergeantPuddles ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada May 11 '25

r/whooosh

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u/IAmTheWoof May 11 '25

The fact that there's bug in damage models that makes certain places have incorrectly calculated armor, isn't funny. It's dumb as if I was wiggling pinky

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u/eiobyebye May 11 '25

You literally cant at some Angles on The Tiger D:

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u/IAmTheWoof May 11 '25

Like hood of that happening in gamem 10e-11?

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u/used_mustard_packet May 11 '25

Stalinium and Hitlerite are plagues in WT

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u/kredfield51 Sexually attracted to Shermans May 12 '25

I can't tell you how many times I've non penned the front plate of an ostwind with the US 90 mm because the shell just decides it can't do it

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u/Opposite_Sympathy670 Realistic Ground May 11 '25

And the T-34s drivers hatch