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

I wouldn't care for the chances of any infantry anywhere near a tank 
that absorbs a heat round into a jerrycan of diesel. I'm not sure if the

fuel would splash, but even if it doesn't you'll get something like a 
splash efefct from the explosion of the warhead. And that means droplets

of fuel, which is what you need to get it to ignite. Burning diesel 
everywhere and probably one heckuva fireball. If it really needs to be 
atomized to ignite, then you might get a splash before it ignites.

The tank shouldn't mind much if it's buttoned up, but I hope modern 
armor is a good insulator.

Any comments from wiser heads, or just hysterical laughter ?

David Brewer wrote:

>"Johan Böjeryd" wrote:
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>>Oo, I love it when we get credit for something. :)
>>They were just a single row of steel rods designed to
>>work like the chains hanging from the Merkavas turret.
>>(At least the ones I've seen, there might have been
>>other variants) We also used jerry cans filled with
>>diesel fuel on racks all over the sides... (for HEAT
>>round dispersion) My officers told me it would work
>>since diesel ignites badly, but I still sceptical
>>since a HEAT round, like the name implies, is very
>>hot. :)
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>The jerry cans would have worked as advertised, in just the same
>way as the Merkava chains or the screens of chicken wire put on
>some vehicles or fortifications. Some tanks use the space in their
>spaced armour as fuel tanks (Merkava again, so I've read).
>According to what I've read on sci.military.moderated this chain
>of thought (spaced armour good, spaced-armour-with-fuel better)
>leads to the composite armours in use today.
>
>I'm sceptical about pushing earth up around a tank, whatever it's
>reinforced with. Once you've pushed that much earth around you
>might as well have scooped out a big hole and put the tank in it.
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