Re: Armour Piercing 201 (Advanced Ceramics)

Quoting Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@webone.com.au>:
> but that's another matter. Your "ceramic fragments and steel absorbs"
> bit
> might well
> be important, I dunno, I didn't study those domains, just the worst
> cases.

It's more for the pure penetrator cases - as soon as you start playing
with any 
of the more advanced rounds, things do get complicated...

{In the realm we were looking at armour types for, we're looking to
defend 
against sharp, high-impact objects - axes, notably. Splash isn't so much
of a 
problem as complete penetration. The other advantage to ceramics is that
the 
surfaces are easier to curve in multiple directions to help deflect
cutting 
tools and pincers. Which don't tend to be an issue with proper armoured 
vehicles... oh, and ceramics don't melt. But then neither do many metals
at the 
temperatures the flame-throwers are limited to...}

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