Re: Soap bubbles?

At 4:54 PM -0800 2/18/03, Jaime Tiampo wrote:
>Strangely enough the move modernly is to thinly armoured warships.
Ships
>with bulkheads thin enough to let missiles pass through without setting
>off the warheads are more survivable then those that have hard armour
>and let the missile explode.

The through and through hits of bombs (or UXBs) during the Falklands 
war is a good example of this. Missile warheads are pretty fragile 
things though. They seem to break up rather quickly and cause more 
damage by virtue of their propellant burning than by explosive effect.
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