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Armour Againsts Cannon

8,930 DogeToTheMoon  3 months ago

As we know the armour against cannon in SimplePlanes is next to none. No matter how thick the fuselage used is, it will likely not even survive a single shot from a cannon. Even stacking the fuselages ends up exploding in a chain causing everything to be damaged. So it "isn't" quite possible.

I did an test 8 hours prior to this post. I was using 4 layers of fuselage sandwiched together and a thick layer of glass which I set the health to zero. I was using a 150mm cannon which I set the muzzle velocity to 1250m/s and the projectile to "basic" instead of "explosive". I went to do the test. I fired the cannon at the "composite" piece I've built. It survived two or three of my shots. The glass managed to stop the projectile and not explode. It instead pushes forward toward the direction of the projectile or it shatters after receiving a few shots.

Unlike fuselage, glass actually shatters instead of exploding like normal fuselage. The explosion of the normal fuselage actually causes the other part to damage or explode too like a chain reaction.

We can conclude that glass is better as an armour than normal fuselage. It acts like a NERA (Non-explosive reactive armour or non-energetic reactive armour).

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    @SILVERPANZER explosion is more powerful than a kinetic projectile for some reasons

    3 months ago
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    53.4k SILVERPANZER

    I did a test where I shot at a small and large Tank with the same parts settings (PCR = None, Health = 9E+31, drag = false), in the end the small Tank shattered into pieces (but the parts were not destroyed, it was just as if everything was deactivated connections), and the large Tank lost the part it was shooting at.

    3 months ago
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    53.4k SILVERPANZER

    The explosion damage of a cannon (or rather the destruction of attachments of parts) depends on two parameters: Caliber and explosionScalar.

    +1 3 months ago
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    NERA
    Click here for info on what NERA is.

    3 months ago