Re: [OT]Stupid question about sloped armour

I think what he was saying (putting words in his mouth) was that at an
angle
you have to cover a lot of area with a sloped plate. If you take the
same
volume (not area, volume!) of steel, you can make a very thick front
plate
standing vertically.
Your point remains true, of course.

on 02.5.1 3:14 PM, Brian Burger at yh728@victoria.tc.ca wrote:
> 
>> 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.)
> 
> Nope, you're just reduced the *effective* thickness of your armour by
the
> percentage (roughly) that it used to be sloped. Do a bit of scribbling
on
> scrap paper, and you'll see what I mean. Draw two parallel lines for
the
> inner & outer surfaces of your hypothetical armour plate, and then
measure
> lines passing thru at differing angles - non-perpendicular lines are
> naturally going to be longer, equalling 'thicker' armour when it's
sloped.

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