Re: Armour Piercing 201 (Advanced Ceramics)

Quoting Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@webone.com.au>:
> Your "cermaic fragments and steel absorbs" reminds me of the "Plastic
> Armour"
> of the dark days in 1940.
> 
> From: http://www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/concrete.html

> It worked because the gravel tilted on impact, pivoting inside the
> asphalt
> matrix and inducing keyholing by the bullet, which spent its kinetic
> energy
> going sideways instead of straight in. The mild steel backing flexed
> inward,
> spreading the shock over a wide area and thus preventing penetration.

Cool. I'd not come across that before.

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