To: antiunion person
but I don't think an rpg has enough power to blow through the steel hull of an oil tanker. An RPG, with a HEAT warhead, can penetrate up to 600mm of rolled steel armor. I don't think that ships are built of anything that thick. (600 mm ~= 23.6 inches). They don't make an especially large hole however. I don't know what the standoff distance to the inner hull on a tanker might be, but I suspect it's sufficient that the jet from the HEAT warhead would not penetrate the second hull, but I could be wrong about that.
67 posted on
04/26/2009 3:51:49 PM PDT by
El Gato
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To: El Gato
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with me. I really appreciate it. I'm retired Army, Ranger/Airborne, but I never fired an rpg at anything on water. I specialized in tanks, personnel carriers and anything else they would let me blow up. LOL
68 posted on
04/26/2009 4:59:07 PM PDT by
antiunion person
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To: El Gato
The real danger would be fire, not holes in the hull.
73 posted on
04/27/2009 1:14:56 AM PDT by
dsc
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