Approved: sci-military-moderated@retro.com Return-Path: news@google.com Delivery-Date: Wed Feb 27 10:22:37 2002 Delivery-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:22:37 -0800 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:22:36 -0800 (PST) for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:04:40 -0500 (EST) for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:04:09 -0800 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:04:08 -0800 for sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:04:08 -0800 To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org From: Psl@interchange.ubc.ca (Paul Lakowski) Newsgroups: sci.military.moderated Subject: Re: Effectiveness of HESH against modern armor Date: 27 Feb 2002 10:04:07 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3c672d5.0202201603.64165060@posting.google.com> <3c672d5.0202241740.75505318@posting.google.com> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.23.94.138 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com X-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Feb 2002 18:04:08 GMT Content-Length: 933 Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 873ee637.newsreader.tycho.net X-Trace: 1014846395 gemini.tycho.net 79558 205.179.181.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tycho.net TTK Ciar wrote in message news:... > > >You'll have a problem with the differening velocities of HESH & KE > >penetrator. The HESH warhead is always going to have lower density > >than the KE. Thus the HESH will bleed velocity quicker. The KE > >could overtake the HESH in due to superior aerodynamics. > [..snipped complicated multi-tank operations..] > > Actually, what I was thinking of was for the HESH warhead to be > attached to the KE rod by a rigid spur (perhaps a steel tube), so > that the KE rod would impact after the HESH warhead had done its > damage. > > -- TTK The Problem here is that apparently HESH needs to impact in a certain velocity window.... < 800m/s or it doesn't work as well....ask Andrew Jaremkow on TankNet for details....in fact here's a link! http://63.99.108.76/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000208.html