Re: Dambusters Rally, Conningsby 6 May

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On Fri, 04 May 2007 20:51:25 GMT, "The Legend" <trabant owners
club@Nicks place.comco> wrote:


With the ferocity of the modern anti-tank round, tanks are as good as
useless anyway. I watched programme on cable TV last week and it doesn't
matter how much armour you put on a tank, the missile will beat it.

Agreed. But this wasn't an anti-tank round, or a missile. This was a
"roadside bomb" - from the look of the explosion, it was more of a
'roadmiddle bomb' - made up by irregulars, out of some sort of
bang-stick... Much cheaper than an anti-tank round or missile.

The problem was that is was a "shaped charge" bomb, rather than just a big
lump of explosive. Also, being "road middle" is was able to strike the
weakest part of any tank that tends to be protected from shaped charge or
penetrater anti-tank rounds by the ground.

Protecting the underside of a tank from such attacks would make them very
heavy and was probably not deemed a worthwhile performance trade off- the
Challenger tank was not designed for use in this type of war.

--
73
Brian, G8OSN
www.g8osn.org.uk




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