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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Reactive armour
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Date: 14 Jan 90 07:41:17 GMT
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From: uunet!sagpd1!jharkins (Jim Harkins)
There is one thing I don't understand about reactive armour.  Why doesn't
someone come up with a round for a standard machine gun that is optimized
for setting off the reactive plates?  Seems to me that you could set up
a few gunners and just have them rake the tanks, then the tank killers
can finish them off with their standard HEAT rounds or whatever.

Even if they had to come up with a custom machine gun, .75 caliber or whatever,
it still seems this would be the way to go.  Machine guns are relatively
low-tech, cheap, easy to use, and light compared to tank killers.

jim
"Only dead fish go with the flow"