Western/Israeli MBT HEAT armor too high?

[CarpathianDragon]

Hello.

I'd like to raise the issue of the HEAT values of Western/Israeli MBT armor in v4.

In light of recent developments in the past 2-3 years, I believe a solid case exists to bring them into question.

As it stands, these tanks, the Merkava III-IV,Challenger 2,M1A2, are practically invulnerable to all HEAT warheads in the frontal arcs, even from the newest AT weapons like the RPG-29 or the AT-13/14 ATGMs. We are talking about these MBTs having values of 140+ versus the absolute max of 120 (the median being 90-95) HEAT penetration values of ATGMs.

That is inconsistent with reality.

In August 2006 a Challenger 2 had its frontal armor penetrated and its crew injured by an Iraqi insurgent RPG-29.

Also in August 2006 the Lebanon War was fought. During the conflict the IDF Merkavas proved vulnerable to RPG-29s and AT-13,AT-14s.

More recently, an M1A2 was damaged by an insurgent RPG-29 during operations in Sadr City in May 2008.

Apparently the dev team has relied on some overly-optimistic assessments of Western armor and thus I would like to ask the dev team to take this issue in consideration for any future patch.

Thanks in advance.