For treadheads and modders--restored WW II American AFVs and tons of AFV stuff

[John Kettler]

This should warm the cockles of treadhead hearts and be a big help to the modders as to how a properly kitted out American AFV of a given type should look. The site's huge and information dense, with stuff beyond groggy. How can that be? This guy's got thermal IR signature data for a number of U.S. WW II AFVs!

http://www.robertsarmory.com/

Why Jumbos made poor pickings when attacked from the front quarter.

http://www.robertsarmory.com/guns.htm

Regards,

John Kettler

[CMFDR]

Thank you John Kettler, this is very interesting material.

By the way, i'm wondering something and you may be the kind of guy that would have the answer.

As far as i know, in the WW2 era, every nations had different penetration criteria, one can easily figure why comparing side by side penetration figures of the era isn't reliable.

So i'm wondering if, after the war, there have been tests done on WW2 era armor with a common penetration criteria?

[John Kettler]

JanMasterson,

You're welcome! Jeff Duquette, John D. Salt et al. may know otherwise, but so far as I know, no nation ran such tests. Any such tests run would logically have been done using whatever that nation's ballistic penetration criteria happened to be. Would venture to suggest that the research that went into the CM games and was also published, in part, at least, in the rare WORLD WAR II BALLISTICS, is perhaps the most comprehensive such look at the matter to date. There, everything had to be recalculated to one specific set of criteria.

This meant taking into consideration such matters as required penetration probability, required degree of penetration, different ways of reporting armor slope, differences in target composition and hardness, to name but a few.

Regards,

John Kettler