From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 10:51:53 PDT
At 12:02 AM +0700 8/8/03, Gavin Broad wrote:
>Hi Chaps,
>
>I would be very interested to hear what protection cold-rolled steel
>will provide against an RPG round .........and I want to hear from
>people who KNOW, NOT from those with an opinion.
>
>As a qualified metallurgist ( albeit in a former incarnation), I can
>only imagine that it would be like holing up a newspaper, when, before,
>one only had arsewipe.
Well, it should protect you from secondary effects around the vehicle
if it's a near miss. If the RPG round strikes the cab area, well,
kiss your arse goodby.
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