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To: ConservativeMind
You believe solid metal items, like wedding rings, compress down at that level of pressure, from all sides?

Blast damage from supersonic (or faster) wave of water coming in will mishape/misform/compress all forms of steel. A SABOT round from a 120mm tank is slower velocity than 6000psi+ velocity of incompressible water. Perfectly compressed miniature? No. Piece of metal that won't fit on anyone's finger? Yes.

20 posted on 06/23/2023 7:56:14 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Das dicke Ende kommt noc!)
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To: DCBryan1
A SABOT round from a 120mm tank is slower velocity than 6000psi+ velocity of incompressible water.

No, it is not. A tank gun has a chamber pressure of 73,950 psi. Metal objects are not compressed very much at all, though they will be reshaped.

51 posted on 06/23/2023 5:39:32 PM PDT by GingisK
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