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  1. Remember the warheads of ATGM's are not kinetic energy dependent. They detonate upon contact irrespective of range. Tandem-HEAT rounds have two warheads to defeat ERA.

    As far as I understand it they melt thru the armour and fill the inside of the fighting compartment with ionised gases and flame.

    I was told that in the first gulf war all that was left of the crew of some Iraqi tanks was some teeth and bits of dog-tag. The rest was lumps of black carbonised material.

    Edit to add:

    RPG29 will punch thru the front of any tank in the world. Again it's chemical rather than kinetic. Challenger 2 has the most frontal armour and it's still very vulnerable.

    To take a tank out of action a penetrating hit only has to kill or wound roughly two crew members. The functions of the tank are severly depleted with this loss. Factor in the actual damage to onboard systems and the human casualties and your looking at a tank backing off from the front line.

    [ September 10, 2007, 11:14 AM: Message edited by: Mishga ]

  2. Originally posted by flamingknives:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Mishga:

    Is there really a HEAT type grenade for armoured targets?

    The basic grenade, AIUI, is a HEDP (Dual purpose) round, which is a shaped charge (HEAT) with a fragmentation jacket.

    Is it the same attachment that UK troops now seem to have attached to SA80's?
    No, that is an AG36 derivative, made by Heckler and Koch. It is, agian AIUI, largely the same as the proposed M320 weapon.

    It differs primarily in that the breech opens by pivoting the barrel to the left rather than sliding forward. Max range is stated to be 400m. </font>

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