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From: ccplumb@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Effects inside tank
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.015359.18692@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 01:53:59 GMT
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From: ccplumb@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb)
wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) wrote:
> In peacetime training, are there *ever* intentionally people inside a tank
> when it is hit by live fire? Somehow I doubt it -- even if there were
> volunteers, there are so many safety rules and liability considerations
> that I just can't imagine such a situation being approved.

A few years back, I saw a TV documentary on an Israeli-developed tank.
It was designed for survivability, with non-flammable libricants,
kevlar anti-spalling interior, low profile, etc.

The documentart said a frequent test was to put a crew inside, fire
a shell at it, and see how fast the crew could recover.

This is a few years old; I have no idea what's happened since then.
-- 
	-Colin


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