From: Rob (dodgew200@mchsi.com)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 21:56:24 PDT
Well, after cruising around the ranges after the zoomies get through
dropping inert ordinance...yes, a concrete filled 500 lbs'er will put a real
hurt on a tank. KE alone will knock a turret off or just cave it in. Saw a
T-something or other with a nice round hole in the turret, major splatter
inside from the spall and a bigger hole in the hull where it exited. Now it
won't look as pretty for the cameras and it'll probably get hit a few more
times because it isn't "all blowed up and on fire"...so the BDA geeks will
say "it ain't dead yet"...
On the other hand, I've been in an M-41 that got hit in the engine with an
inert Bull-Pup....the turret still cranks around by hand and the main gun
would still function...so it may be just a big pill box at that point, and
still very deadly.
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Greville" <dgrev@ruralnet.net.au>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 5:16 PM
Subject: [MV] Hush-a-bomb
> Everyone
>
> I see that some clever person came up with the idea of using concrete
> filled practice bombs to take out urban tanks in Iraq, without ruining
> the neighbourhood.
>
> It does make me wonder why the US decided to take along stocks of
> practise weapons to a war theatre - got to be a contradiction in there
> somewhere?
>
> You do have to hand it to them, smart idea. (Pardon the pun.) Although
> I would still expect the explosion from on board ammo and fuel would
> be significant?
>
> Has anyone ever seen just what the consequences of that sort of blunt
> trauma are to an AFV? Is there any real difference to a sabot hit
> and the following self-destruction?
>
> Regards
> Doug
>
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