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From: john%ghostwheel.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Prentice)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Effects inside tank
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Date: 27 Feb 91 01:55:26 GMT
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From: john%ghostwheel.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Prentice)
In article <1991Feb26.011553.5289@cbnews.att.com> wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:
>
>Not too far back, someone posted a question regarding the effects on a
>tank crew of *non-lethal* hits, and what happens inside a tank bearing
>reactive armor when it works and goes off and successfully defeats an
>anti-tank munition. I never saw any responses. Please, if anyone out
>there knows, post! This seems to be widely ignored, and I think it is
>worth far more attention than it gets. 

Let me hazard an educated guess.  My hunch is that there are insignificant
sounds created, at least insignificant in terms of incapacitating someone.
Sound is communicated from the outside of the armor to the inside by
vibrating it.  I doubt you are going to get a devastating audible vibration
in armor.  If you do, you are probably dead.  However, as I said, this
is just a guess.  I imagine there are people finding out for real right
now.

[mod.note:  I would add that in my readings on tank warfare, this shock
effect has never been stated as a serious problem.  It's possible that 
the faster modern penetrators may be more severe, of course. - Bill ]

John

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John K. Prentice    john@unmfys.unm.edu (Internet)
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Computational Physics Group, Amparo Corporation, Albuquerque, NM, USA


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