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To: Rocky

“Armor penetration
800 mm”

That’s a little over 31”. Wow


6 posted on 01/28/2020 9:48:59 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

That’s de rigeur for heavy ATGMs these days. In the case of a tandem warhead ATGM, they do that *after* bypassing the ERA layer.

Kinda makes you wonder why it took the slaughter of Leopard 2A4s/2A5s in Syria by Russian heavy ATGMs to get NATO to wake up to the threat - and the fact that no practical amount of armor is going to keep ATGMs out of your fighting compartment. NATO is now hastily buying tank Active Protection Systems of the type that the Israelis have been making for decades and the Russians have had for about as long.


37 posted on 04/17/2020 10:19:42 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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