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From: boulder!boulder!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
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Subject: Re: tanks
Summary: Old-model Soviet armor and vulnerability thereof
Keywords: APFSDS going right through
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.234717.22524@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 23:47:17 GMT
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From: boulder!boulder!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)



  I was told of a demonstration of a 120mm discarding sabot round fired against
a T-55 by a good friend who spent 4 years in the U.S. Army.  The tank target
had two sheep carcasses placed inside it to demonstrate the effect of a
penetration by a non-exploding round on personnel inside a tank.
  The discarding sabot round penetrated the front of the turret near the turret
ring, and exited out the turret rear.  One of the sheep carcasses was pulverized
completely by (apparently) the shock wave that passed through the vehicle, 
sucked out the exit hole, and sprayed over a considerable bit of the landscape
behind the tank target.  The other sheep carcasse was merely splattered all over
the inside of the tank.  The turret of the tank was moved several feet backward,
coming to rest on the rear decking of the vehicle.
  Admittedly, this is second hand, but from a normally reliable source, not much
given to fabrication or exaggeration.  
  Do any of the readers have any first hand information on effects of anti-tank
weapons on vehicle personnel?  

  Send replies by email.  Thanx.



  
  --don't like snow, miss Deirdre, and wish I was still in Santa Cruz.