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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: HEAT shell question and proposal.
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Date: 24 Jan 90 03:34:43 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: animage%sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Cal-Animage Club)
>...  Why don't we just go with a simple and cheap
>solution of firing gooey substances that get sucked into a tank's engine ...

At least one idea along these lines has already been proposed:  a shell that
produces a cloud of acetylene.  Even a few percent of acetylene in the air
going into an engine will very quickly wreck it due to preignition.

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                 uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu