Re: New 'electrical active' Armour to defeat hand held anti-tankrounds

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>In the US Army it's called HEP - High Explosive Plastic.  They can be
very
>effective, but they are extremely unreliable, because the actual effect
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>the target is highly variable. A standard "party piece" at various
>demonstrations was to trot out a bushel basket full of fragments
collected
>from a HEP hit on a target hulk. What nobody ever mentioned was how
many
>shots it took to get one that produced THAT effect. HEP/HESH
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One of the problems with answering mail at 2 AM in the morning is that 
you write one thing and
meant another. It is not APSH but HESH (HEP) that I meant. I was not 
commenting on how
effective it was but only that an E/M field would cause very little 
dsiruption to this type of round.

Scott Siebold

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