[OT] armor penatration - angle is important

Scott,

>Hi all,
>I am new to the list

Welcome to our wonderful (and colourful!) community.

>so if I goof up on this, have some forgiveness and don't flame out.

I really wouldn't worry about that, we are on the wholea very calm list,

with usually a very low level of flame.

>Let me know if  "wrong list", "off the subject" or something else
wrong.

This doesn't tend to stop most of us... traditionally posts that are not

wholly relevant are marked [OT] in the subject headline.

>I read one of the articles about angled armor and I >believe the author

>missed the point. The angle that an >AP (armor piercing) round hits at
does 
>matters
>and makes the armor effectively thicker.
<snip>
>example.

Yup you are absolutely correct,I believe that this was the consensus of
the 
list after some discusion (though I may be wrong, I got borred with that

string after a bit).

Very elegant example! I like it.

Richard

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