Is hardox absolutely necessary??

[R9000]

To be fair, it did take several enormous smashes from the most destructive spinner in the game to bend that stuff. The total kinetic energy used to bend that panel must've been immense. And again, nobody has the weight for 8mm all over. Whoops! and Sewer Snake are only armoured at the front as far as I know. Whoops! even has the advantage of having no active weapon mechanism, which wouldn't be allowed on TV.

That said, I do understand that 8mm isn't overboard for more heavily-armoured sections. But I still think it is if your entire HW shell is made up of it.