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« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2008, 09:21:35 PM » |
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I thought that tank piercing was a bit of a fallacy - instead the round hits the surface of the tank at high speed resulting in plastic deformation. This causes locallised heating, causing the tank casing to melt and molten steel fly around inside the tank. No idea if there's anything in that, but that's what I was told. Of course DU has a high density so can carry more energy that an equivalent-dimensioned lump of lead/steel etc.
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« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2008, 10:09:45 PM » |
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Tungsten - when it hits armour punches a hole. Perhaps DU works more like an armour piercing high explosive round. However as far as Im aware DU is classed as 'armour piercing'. Perhaps it punches a hole by sheer virtue of its density alone.
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« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2008, 09:47:07 AM » |
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Don't attack the tank attack it's fuel supply.
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« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2008, 12:16:38 PM » |
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doh!but isnt that inside it? (puzzled smiley required!)
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Ivan
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« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2008, 02:57:07 PM » |
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Or how about a potato up the exhaust pipe?
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« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2008, 04:03:35 PM » |
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No Ivan,thats its gun not the ex....BANG!! oh dear too late;baked potato anyone?  |
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« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2008, 04:06:26 PM » |
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« Reply #22 on: June 30, 2008, 04:12:42 PM » |
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Or how about a potato up the exhaust pipe?
I dunno - Sounds about as effective as the British Armies Rifle launched anti tank grenade - of cold war vintage. The prospects of trying to stop a T72 with one of them looked like an ascension day mission (WWII German soldiers description for a suicide mission) |
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« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2008, 04:28:27 PM » |
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Ivan
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« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2008, 04:39:06 PM » |
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very relevant. Shame they don't do smaller scale units.
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« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2008, 04:44:47 PM » |
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Or how about a potato up the exhaust pipe?
I dunno - Sounds about as effective as the British Armies Rifle launched anti tank grenade - of cold war vintage. The prospects of trying to stop a T72 with one of them looked like an ascension day mission (WWII German soldiers description for a suicide mission) presumably,if they left the lid up.with the right trajectory you could just plop one inside  |
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« Reply #26 on: July 01, 2008, 06:02:28 PM » |
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Or how about a potato up the exhaust pipe?
I dunno - Sounds about as effective as the British Armies Rifle launched anti tank grenade - of cold war vintage. The prospects of trying to stop a T72 with one of them looked like an ascension day mission (WWII German soldiers description for a suicide mission) presumably,if they left the lid up.with the right trajectory you could just plop one inside Plop what inside? a potato  ?? Mike |
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« Reply #27 on: July 01, 2008, 09:07:55 PM » |
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unfortunately,with the shameful lack of equipment in the british army,it might just come to that  |
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« Reply #28 on: July 02, 2008, 02:17:11 AM » |
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Weren't sharpened shovels the only weapon available to many British WW1 frontline service men? Things don't change...
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