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from original feedback threadToday I was driving the abrams on Karbala. We were moving out through the desert, north of the big complex with multiple mosques, and I spotted an enemy car. It was parked on the northwest corner of the big huge wall, marked in red in the image below. there appeared to be an enemy by the car in prone, as well. I called out his location, and marked the car for my gunner. Before he could swing the turret, and blast the car, the insurgent had gotten in, and driven away. Immediately I suspected something. I made sure to stay away from where the insurgent was, however, our position on the map is marked in blue where I spotted the insurgent, and we were moving west. As we were moving west, I put my eyes to where the insurgent was and of little surprise to me, I saw an artillery IED laying there at the corner of the wall. I figured we were far enough away from it, and I stopped momentarily to get a better look at it. I pointed it out to my gunner, and .50 cal gunner, and they were not surprised either. What happened next was a huge surprise to us, however. The shell detonated and we were instantly dead.

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Shocked, confused and DEAD we spawned at main base angrily. I decided myself, and my fellow tankers would become, now a sniper squad (I promise we spotted, and lazed for kiowa as much as we did acquire 1337 headshots). We grabbed the sniper, myself as an officer, and my other squadmate a medic, took a transport humvee and headed out into the desert. The fastest, and most safe way (despite last time's untimely fate) was to take the same route, and get to our target location to snipe enemies at the current known cache location. As we were driving along we stopped at our former armored beast, and were mesmerized by how far we were from that artillery shell when it blew up. myself and my sniper took out or rangefinders, stood on the tank and measured how far it was from the tank to where the IED was.

It was over 85 meters! (88 was our best measurement). The m1a1 abrams has over 600mm of armor! an artillery shell is simply not that big! The shell itself is no bigger than 150mm, and the abrams can survive a direct hit from 120mm of armor piercing! Hellfires dont even come close to that kind of power, and the LGBs are about of similar strength.

The artillery shell IED presently is horribly unrealistic, and imbalanced, in that it can destroy literally anything with a 90 meter radius apparently. I strongly suggest it gets reworked in some way, it was beyond frustrating to be killed like that.

40mmrain wrote: It was over 85 meters! (88 was our best measurement). The m1a1 abrams has over 600mm of armor! an artillery shell is simply not that big! The shell itself is no bigger than 150mm, and the abrams can survive a direct hit from 120mm of armor piercing! Hellfires dont even come close to that kind of power, and the LGBs are about of similar strength.

How do you know there was only 1 arty IED?

Bufl4x wrote:How do you know there was only 1 arty IED?
If i ever do ambushes on insurgency i usually place one in a visible spot and then a second one where i think my targets would go to avoid the first one.

Stealthgato wrote:I can confirm APC killing power from over 50 metres. Lost some APCs in Fallujah to arty IEDs that were 50m and further away. I'm pretty sure it was only one every time because the APC doesn't die instantly but gets set on fire and we get out, look around and see the smoke cloud, only one IED relatively far away.

40mmrain wrote:

artillery shell location black, and thats where our tank was.

I assure you guys it was the only ied there, they are very visible on thermals, and I made sure to check for them.

'Sgt.Desert Tiger[TR wrote:;1669818']I enter article with guess someone cry to modders for nerf arty ied and lol my guess come true.

Even arty ied not powerfull as it need.Because 1 arty ied direct hit not destroy apc, I have video!!!

So there was an another ied where you stand or something like that.Because there is no way a tank(with not take any dmg) down with direct hit by 1 ied.You only lose your tracks(and I hate it -_-).

TheComedian wrote:Wait did devs introduce arty IEDs in Karbala? There were not arty IEDs last I remember.

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[R-DEV]Rudd wrote:its there someplace

Souls Of Mischief wrote:Please, post the video. I have blown up APC's with the artillery IED from 20-40 metres.