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From: spencert@cs.rpi.edu (Thomas Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Anti-spall armor
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Date: 21 Feb 91 03:13:35 GMT
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From: spencert@cs.rpi.edu (Thomas Spencer)
John K. Prentice    john@unmfys.unm.edu (Internet)
suggested that some rounds that failed to penatrate might kill the
tank crew (and hence knock out the tank) by causing stuff to spall
off the inside of the armor.
	
Ny comment:
	
	I would expect tank designers to be working on anti-spall armor.
	Maybe by lining the inside with Kevlar or something you could cut
	down on the armor's tendency to spall.  Is there any unclassified
	information on whether this is feasible ?
	
-- 
			-Tom Spencer
			 spencert@turing.cs.rpi.edu
"First figure out what you are trying to do."  -Me.