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

> > Um... Imre? This extra armour was against *HEAT* rounds. Not against
KE;
> > definitely not against APFSDS. In addition this "armour" had a
tendency to
> > send a large shower of splinters straight into the tank's sights
when hit
> > by pretty much anything larger than a side arm, thereby considerably
> > faciliating an F-kill by weapons which otherwise would've been too
light
>to
> > threaten the tank seriously from the front...
>
>That's interesting, the article I read specified APFSDS, not HEAT.  It
did
>not specifiy what happend to the bars.  While I'm not surprised that
the
>bars shattered, the article did specify that 120mm APFSDS was not
capable of
>penetrating the front of the S-103b.

Put it like this: *Old* 125mm WarPac APFSDS (fired from a T-72 in the 
tests) were well capable of penetrating the front of the S-103b with the

"grill armour". When tested, the rounds penetrated into the S-tank's 
autoloader... which is pretty much as far back as you can get in that
tank.

Even the older Western 120mm APFSDS had better penetration than the old 
WarPac 125mm rounds, mainly due to their better L:D ratios. (The length
of 
the WarPac rounds were restricted by the size of the autoloader.)

So... if this article a) says that the "grill" was designed to stop
APFSDS 
and b) made the S-103b impenetrable to even an early 120mm APFSDS round,

then I wouldn't believe anything else it says either if I were you.

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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