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Snib, on 10 December 2011 - 06:37 PM, said: It will hit the skirt/spaced armor. If it has enough penetration, it will penetrate said armor, but do no damage. However, whatever penetration power is left in the shell will then be applied to the hull armor behind the skirt/spaced armor and - if you penetrate - cause damage there as usual.
Due to HE damage mechanics this type of armor is particularly effective to reduce or entirely negate HE damage effects, whereas high penetration AP shells are not affected (except regarding normalization - shells are normalized twice when hitting the outer armor, no further normalization occurs when hitting the inner armor).
This is not a new mechanic, e.g. the E-Series was released with the armor skirts of this type.
edit: second time I post at the same time as someone else in here today, I give up