RE: two beautiful pictures [TANKS]

["John Guy" <john-at-tankcommand.org>]

Spot on Erick

The Hesh roand momentarily flattens onto the armour like a cowpat,
before detonating and sending a shockwave through the armour, shattering
the inside
Of the armour and sending red hot fragments of armour plate whizzing
round the fighting compartment (I think the fragments were refered to as
"spalding").
Modern composite armour such as Chobham, or reactive armour will
substantially increase resistance to this happening by immediately
exploding outwards and hopefully destroying the "Cowpat" before
detonation.
Reactive and Chobham are also good defence against HEAT rounds, though I
wouldn't want to be sat in a Tank that got hit by either, be it a Chally
1 or 2, or an M1!!!
And as for DU penetrator rounds..............  :-(

John Guy
Managing Director
TANK COMMAND Ltd
www.tankcommandltd.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com [mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com]
On Behalf Of Aahz.
Sent: 16 December 2004 02:19
To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Subject: Re: two beautiful pictures [TANKS]

adt22-at-drexel.edu wrote:

>>Yeowch! That's going to be a rough landing! I can't imagine
>>they can do that more than once or twice without some
>>important part breaking or cracking!
>>breaking
>>
> 
> 
> Yeah, like the crew!
> 
> I've heard that in WWII most crew deaths were from screws or other
stuff ricocheting around inside.  Fact or fiction?
> 

        Wasn't the HESH round designed to transfer as much kinetic
energy to 
the side of the tank in hopes of making someting inside break loose and 
kill people?

Erick