Thread:Golurk 88/@comment-34517845-20181129172200/@comment-34517845-20190107195555

Also, normalization

Normalization often happens with both AP and APCR. When hitting the armor, the shell angles itself by -5* to -10* from its original entry angle. Over the history, shell designers have designed shells to maximize normalization. For example. When a armor plate angled at 65*, the overall effective armor is doubled. Lets say: 188mm of effective armor. A shell with an average penetration of 198mm may bounce if it not normalized, but because it happens, it increases the chance for a penetration, which in turn, decreases the effective armor value when the caculation is made by the game engine.