RE: Buy the new US military rifle before the troops get them
April 24, 2022 at 8:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2022 at 8:22 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 24, 2022 at 8:02 pm)Jehanne Wrote: They appear to be adapting:
Russian Tanks Surviving Hits from U.S.-made Javelin Missiles: Russian MoD Posted by Linda Kay on Mar 3rd,
explosives based anti-tank weapons mostly replies on the principle of using explosives to form a hypersonic jet of gas and metal which forces its way through the armor of tank, while using the wall of the hole the jet created to help confined the jet and concentrate its force at the bottom of the hole. Any thin screen that causes the warhead to detonate prematurely instead of against the armor causes the jet to become unfocused before hitting the armor, whicg greatly reduces the ability of the warhead to penetrate the armor. This thin screen is called spaced armor.
The Russians appears to have improvised spaced armor for the roofs of their tanks. Once this practice becomes widespread we should expect to see success rate of javelins and other light man portable anti-tank weapon in Ukraine hands fall drastically.
In Afghanistan and iraq, the islamists used similar warheads on Russian missiles as well as RPGs against US and NATO tanks such as the M-1, challenger 2 and Leopard 2. It is seldomly mentioned in western press, but a sizable number of each of these best western tanks were also destroyed by these missiles, and these tanks cost $5-8 million each. The russian kornet missiles used against them were not sophisticated enough to focus on the tank’s thin roof, but they were nonetheless able to penetrate the sides and rear of NATO tanks. As a result, NATO forces also added improvised space armor for their sides and rears. This eventually made these tanks sufficiently resistant to these weapons to restore their freedom of operation.
