HMMWV Armour Capabilities.

[Spinkyone]

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[masterceo]

LAT weapons of regular armies will destroy hmmwv in one shot. for 0.85 the damage of insurgent and taliban RPGs has been reduced by 25% (correct me if i'm wrong) but i have heard that this will be fixed in the upcoming 0.86 patch by reverting RPG damage to 100% and giving it far less accuracy

[Spinkyone]

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[[R-DEV]ZZEZ]

Not with the US uparmored HMMWV, the Israeli version.
Its designed to stop bullets - number of bullets to shatter the window/windshield is OPSPEC...IED or RPG will certainly immobilize it and cause serious injury among the soldiers inside.

[masterceo]

yes, the up armored hmmwv offers more protection against bullets, but they still can't do much about ied/rpgs. quoting from this page: http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...nd/hmmwvua.htm

Following reports of almost daily RPG and IED attacks on Army vehicles in Iraq, engineers from the Research Development and Engineering Command began developing a modification kit in the summer of 2003 to provide better protection for standard production Humvees operating in Iraq. With design help from the Army Research Laboratory and testing from Maryland’s Aberdeen Proving Ground Test Center in October, the Armor Survivability Kit was born. The kit includes armored doors with ballistic-resistant windows and seatback protectors. It adds about 1,000 pounds to a standard Humvee giving better protection against the RPG and IED threat in Iraq. There are two ASK versions, one supporting a two-door Humvee and the other, a four-door Humvee. ASK is not intended to replace the original production model of the up-armored Humvee, but it is a means to provide greater survivability to Soldiers using a standard Humvee, officials said.

as you see, ASK improves protection and chances of surviving a RPG/IED attack, but can't really eliminate the danger.

[Spinkyone]

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[[R-DEV]ZZEZ]

Even heavier vehicles, MRAPs have problem driving away after IED/RPG attack, my NCO once hit a IED in a Safaron MRAP that weights 16 ton, it did serious damage to the engine and the front left wheel was destroyed - but the people inside were unharmed which is its main objective.


http://defense-update.com/images_new1/safaron.jpg

[Donatello]

So, DEVs... Will it be fixed (HMMWV armor or RPG power)? Or not?

Answer, please.

[[R-DEV]Masaq]

Originally Posted by Donatello

So, DEVs... Will it be fixed (HMMWV armor or RPG power)? Or not?

Answer, please.

You're asking in the Off-topic, not-for-discussion-about-PR forum... you're unlikely to get a response about whether or not the Hummer in-game will be changed in here

Take it to the feedback thread - or rather, I have (moved the thread) for you...

[Donatello]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Masaq

You're asking in the Off-topic, not-for-discussion-about-PR forum... you're unlikely to get a response about whether or not the Hummer in-game will be changed in here

Take it to the feedback thread - or rather, I have (moved the thread) for you...

Yeah... My bad.

Thanks, anyway

P.S. Is it answer?