Re: [SG2] Cover Penetration Question for all you Armour Experts

Imre Szabo wrote:

>That's garbage.  Build a parapet with a top of a minimum 10 feet. 
Compact
>the material.	Then pound 1" or larger diameter rebar into the front of
the
>top of the parapet every 2".  Any incoming APFSDS that goes all the way
>through the parapet will hit the rebar.  That will both slightly
>horizontally deflect and massively deform the incoming round.	The
round
>will then loose most of its energy travelling through the rest of the
>parapet.
>
>This is an extrapolation of a very nifty technique the Swede's used to
>up-armor (for wartime use  only, it was secrets for many years) the
S-103b.
>They had steel bars that would fit into very the front of the S-103b. 
Is it
>any wonder that Sweden was the first country to deploy the top attack
>anti-tank missile?

Um... Imre? This extra armour was against *HEAT* rounds. Not against KE;

definitely not against APFSDS. In addition this "armour" had a tendency
to 
send a large shower of splinters straight into the tank's sights when
hit 
by pretty much anything larger than a side arm, thereby considerably 
faciliating an F-kill by weapons which otherwise would've been too light
to 
threaten the tank seriously from the front...

Now, your parapet design might work... too bad that you'll only be able
to 
build one such parapet-equipped fighting position per tank company :-/

Regards,

Oerjan
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