[archy]

Archy, anything to this?

The Croats certainly had and used the Milan, and the Afrikaners certainly had them.

There are several generational differences between early and later model Milan missiles, and a late or developmental model Milan warhead is at least a possible suspect. And the use of a Milan launcher is consistant with with some of the reports of Abrams taking hits from weapons mounted in the back of light trucks during the sandstorms during the early days of clearing the Iraqi cities.

Metalurgical evaluation of the recovered penetrator slug will tell the tale. We'll see.

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[tet68]

I thought spalling was what occurred when hit by a
squash head round, a flake (or as we called them fleek) is popped of the interior surface of the armor and proceeds to bounce around the inside, doing major damage and not noticing human flesh at all.

Squash head projectiles had a soft explosive that on impact
squished out into a platter shape before detonation, the shock wave travels through the armor and knocks a flake loose on the other side.

As I remember.....