![]() Keep in mind that the vehicle will attempt to stow the launcher even when pushed by the enemy, making it impossible to shoot back, therefore all care should be taken to avoid such situations.īGM-71C I-TOW ATGM is a relatively potent missile, having above average penetration values and an excellent flight velocity. The vehicle is trying to put the launcher on the pad whenever it is moving, however, it is still possible to keep it unfolded by using cruise control or moving short distances at a time and stopping between them. It also does not have an arming distance, therefore it can fire at tanks even if they are in your immediate surroundings. The turret can angle down 30 degrees, which means it can fire down from almost any mountain or fire horizontally even when standing on a steep cliff. Due to the fuse sensitivity of 0.01 mm, any bush, fence or object in the way will trigger the missile into detonation and the lack of a machine gun means that these obstacles will become quite a nuisance. The missile is a second-generation ATGM so it is mouse controlled. The post-penetration of this missile is not amazing and in some circumstances, a follow-up missile may be needed. It has up to 630 mm of penetration at 0 degrees at any distance since it carries a HEAT warhead. The main weapon on the M901 is the BGM-71C I-TOW ATGM. Rubber-Fabric Screens - Fenders/Sideskirts.Structural Steel - Front and Rear Fenders.Crossing open areas may also result in taking a hit, thus losing an engine, a crew member or resulting in an ammo-rack explosion. When played from a hull-down position with only the launcher exposed, this vehicle is practically immune to kinetic damage, however, being hit with a chemical shell or ATGM into the turret might cause the ATGMs to explode and destroy the carrier. The driver is located at the front of the vehicle and is next to the engine block, which might block the shot.īehind the engine block is the ammunition storage, if hit from the front with SPAA rounds or some types of conventional rounds, the engine block will eat up (absorb and protect the rest of the vehicle) most of the shots, however, if shot from the side or from the front with HEAT, pure AP, APDS and APFSDS rounds, this usually ends in disaster as it will go through the engine and cause an ammunition explosion or destroy a majority of the crew, knocking out the vehicle with a single shot. Since the I-tow missile is launched from a launcher mounted on top of a tower, it is next to impossible to hit the tower base when hull-down and so the gunner is not exposed to direct fire. In the middle of the tank is the gunner operating the tower. Two crew members, the loader and the commander, are located in the back part of the hull and there are no other critical components located there, so there is little reason to target them first. The crew, however, has excellent survivability when the vehicle is placed in a hull-down position. If small Bombs or rockets miss, they might fail to penetrate, but armour will not save M901 when receiving a direct hit. The top is also quite strong with 38 mm of alloy, which is equivalent to about 18 mm RHA, which means hull might be able to sustain some inaccurate fighter strafe, but most of their 30 mm cannons or top-down attacks will still ruin the tank. The 30-35 mm SPAA and light tanks will penetrate this tank indefinitely at almost any range. Keep in mind, that SPAA have high fire rate and you must park it at least 600 m away and at an angle, or they will still manage some partial penetrations. Overall, head-on this is only enough to stop 12.7 mm calibre machine gun fire from 600 m away and if angled correctly able to stop some low-calibre SPAAs from penetrating the hull and any APHE of its rank will detonate upon hitting it. However, there is a hatch on front which is much about 40% thinner and make this effort rather fruitless, which is compensated by the engine block being there to block some shots. Overall, This counts as about 21 mm of RHA. The front is angled to make frontal armour effective thickness to match the flat sides. It may look like a lightly armoured vehicle, but it features 44 mm of alloy 7039 on the sides and 38 mm on the front. Interior layout of the M901 showing the location of ammo racks, crew and critical components.
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