RE: [SG2] Cover Penetration Question for all you Armour Experts

At 2:13 PM -0600 8/28/02, B Lin wrote:
>IIRC the account as listed by Tom Clancy was that an American M1 
>spotted an Iraqi T-72 moving behind a sand berm.  The berm was 15 
>feet tall so direct sight of the tank was lost.  Using the thermal 
>sight, the heated exhaust plume of the Iraqi tank was visible rising 
>above the berm.  Calculating where the bulk of the tank should lie, 
>the M1 fired through the berm.  The APFSDS went through the berm and 
>through the Iraqi tank.  I don't think that the range was listed. 
>From pictures I've seen of the sand berms, they were 20-30 feet 
>thick.

At the base or at the point where the round penetrated. Given how 
sand doesn't like to slope very much when dry, I'd expet that the 
berm had to be far thinner at the top than at the base.

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