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Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 2:18
PM
Subject: RE: front armor hits
Gordon,
Where do you live?
-----Original Message-----
From:
Gordon Rapson [mailto:gord.r-at-shaw.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:39 PM
To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Subject: Re: front armor hits
Bravo Steve! Comon guys this is a KISS hobby.
Lets just have fun!
Gord
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From: Steve Tyng <stevet-at-stcharlesmd.com>
To: <tanks-at-rctankcombat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:49 PM
Subject:
RE: front armor hits
> OK here we go again on this issue. First and
foremost, R/C Tank
> Combat is
a combat hobby and not a scale hobby. This hobby is not about
reproducing tanks in miniature and basing there capabilities in minute detail
on the actual tank. Who in there right mind would actually pit a WW2
tank against a modern equivalent? This hobby is about guys building toys
and having fun with them. Since interest in tanks runs the gamut from
WW1 to modern day, the rules allow you to model any production vehicle you
want. To allow competitive vehicles from all ages the rule set is only
loosely based on a vehicles characteristics. And to make things simpler
and more fun, the hobby is based on predefined classes of vehicles (light,
medium, heavy, etc.), not the other way around. This means if somebody
models a modern tank that could blow a hole through twenty WW2 tanks set in a
row, or has armor that would shrug off all the rounds fired in WW1. It
doesn't mean that the model should have e!
> nhanced capabilities compared to other tanks in the
hobby. What fun
> would
that be? Whatever class a vehicle best fits in, from whatever
era, that+s where it goes.
>
> Steve 'Getting of my Soapbox' Tyng
>
>
>
-----Original Message-----
> From:
tanks-at-rctankcombat.com [mailto:tanks-at-rctankcombat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:10 PM
> To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
>
Cc: stevet-at-stcharlesmd.com
> Subject: RE: front
armor hits
>
>
> >From what I've seen, I think this is a function of
allowing the use
> >of WWII
> era tanks and modern tanks on the same field of battle. If you
look at
> the
tanks already
designated on the website, you'll only find a couple of modern tanks. If you
suddenly threw even one or two M1A2's in the thick of a whole host of WWII era
tanks, the only thing really limiting how many tanks the M1's could kill would
be their ammunition supply.
>
> Shaped charge warheads
versus standard metal armor anyone?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com
> > [mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com]
> > On Behalf Of Burdett, Steve
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:42 AM
> > To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
> >
Subject: RE: front armor hits
> >
> > I'm pretty sure you're referring to ERA, Explosive
Reactive Armour.
> > It consists of explosive
plates or pads laid out across the sides of
> >
the vehicle. An incoming round detonates the plate, generating a
> > blast that slows the incoming projectile and
hopefully (for the
> > occupants) deflects
it.
> >
> > Beats
armoured skirts any day!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
From: TSHIPP [mailto:TSHIPP-at-columbus.rr.com]
> > Sent: 05 March 2003 16:31
> > To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
> >
Subject: Re: front armor hits
> >
> >
> > Have a question
on hits. What about the modern tanks that have anti
> > - weapon devises on the sides of their tanks, and
turret? The
> > STRV-103 and others have
devises that protect it from being hurt
>
> when hit on its sides by a large round, they explode on impact,
> > forcing the energy to blow away from the
tank, making it very hard
> > to disable
it. So, should we add more hits on the sides of those
> > tanks that carry the devises? :-, :-, :-
> >
> > The slop of the deck will
cause any frontal attack about useless,
> >
because the rounds energy would blow over the tank due to the angle
> > of the deck. It of course, as all tanks are,
weak in the overhead
> > hit, those that travel
almost straight down hitting the top of the
> >
deck, the energy would go straight down into the tank, most likely a
> > one hit kill.
>
>
> > Rockets, missiles, high angle
artillery, could give a one hit kill
> > to any
tank. Maybe a special color paint ball so that everyone
> > would know that the tanks deck was hit by a high angle weapon
and
> > killed?
>
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> >
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> >
> >
Tom
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