In case this is useful for anyone building britshit in the future, I figured out what these rubber pads are running around the engine deck of most British post-war tanks:
They're gun depression stop-rails, so the gun barrel doesn't scrape along the engine deck and rip shit off.
>>11045119The Krug is a proper fucking monster as long as ground-forces SAM (as opposed to separate air-defense branch SAM) goes, I believe only fixed SAM emplacements like the also monstrous SA-5 outranged it, until the SA-12 Gladiator, the also ground-forces variant of the S-300 came along.
