Re: [OT]Stupid question about sloped armour

No matter how you cut it, if the shell glances (bounces/slides) off, it
carries a big part of the kinetic energy with it.

And since war is essentially the consumption of resources, the less
steel
you can use to bleed off the enemy's weaponry without losing your tank
in
the process, the better. So you would rather use 1 ton of armor and get
glancing hits than 10 tons of armor and take them all head-on.

on 02.5.1 1:22 PM, Roger Books at books@jumpspace.net wrote:
> 
> This has been bothering me for awhile.  How does sloped armour gain
> me anything?
> 
> If I take the same mass of sloped armour and make armour perpendicular
> to the ground I gain the same thickness you would gain from the
> slope.  Space would remain the same (If I pivot the slope about
> the center everything I lose from the bottom reappears on the
> top.)
> 
> The only thing I can think is maybe you increase your chance
> of a "glancing" hit.

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