Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Poohbah
You are presuming I mean the DU 30mm round...you are presuming wrong.

Hyperveocity can also be achieved through the use of rocket propellant...and we have them, along with the kinetic penetrator warhead at the sword end.

Depending on the location of the tank, and whether it was sitting or moving...you can certinly obtain 100m LOS. ie. park one at an intersection.

As I said...most likely a Kornet, or a lucky RPG-7, perhaps with the newer shoot from above warhead.

59 posted on 06/07/2004 12:41:12 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com - The next World War)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies ]


To: Jeff Head
Hyperveocity can also be achieved through the use of rocket propellant...and we have them, along with the kinetic penetrator warhead at the sword end.

Now you're back to minimum-range issues. It takes much more to accelerate a rocket projectile to Vmax. In essence, you're trading minimum range against recoil forces.

Depending on the location of the tank, and whether it was sitting or moving...you can certinly obtain 100m LOS. ie. park one at an intersection.

LOS, of and by itself, isn't difficult.

LOS from a position of concealment (which is kind of necessary to survive firing): rather more difficult.

61 posted on 06/07/2004 12:44:03 PM PDT by Poohbah ("Mister Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" -- President Ronald Reagan, Berlin, 1987)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson