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From: Loyd M. Enochs (lenochs%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: TOW vs. M-60
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Date: 23 Oct 90 01:01:24 GMT
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From: Loyd M. Enochs (lenochs%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil)  
>From a previous episode on the network (author unknown)..........
>  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......

A new series on the DISCOVERY Channel, called 'Firepower', demonstrated the 
firing of a TOW against a moving M-60 (I think M-60).  The missile hit just at 
the turret ring and stopped the tank in about 20 meters.  The tank turned into 
a pyrotechnic static display as the munitions aboard cooked off.  Absolutely 
the most destructive anti-tank demonstration I've seen (I am ex-Air Force 
munitions maintenance).

By the by, Firepower is on Friday nights at 9:30pm Eastern.

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Loyd M. Enochs, Dynamics Research Corp, Andover, MA 02135

"When in doubt, the claymore is facing you."  Murphy's Laws of Combat
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