Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: paulf@mcnc.org (Paul Damian Franzon) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Effects inside tank Message-ID: <1991Mar12.232849.534@cbnews.att.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 23:28:49 GMT References: <1991Feb26.011553.5289@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (william.b.thacker) Organization: MCNC; RTP, NC Lines: 30 Approved: military@att.att.com From: paulf@mcnc.org (Paul Damian Franzon) [Note to Moderator: I am out of date on following this list. Please do not post if there has been a definitive answer. My apologies if that is the case.] In article <1991Feb26.011553.5289@cbnews.att.com> wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes: > > >From: Will Martin >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! While I was having breakfast with the CO of the Armor Bn in the Brigade I am in, I asked him this question. His answer was that at the end of the battles in the Kuwaiti Theatre of Operations Tank Crews were discovering that they had been hit during the battle, by anti-tank ammunition, and were not even aware of it due to the general noise of battle! Admittedly his answer most likely pertains to M1s. According to a WW2 tanker I knew once he could hear the constant small thuds of small arms rounds striking his tank. Paul Franzon CPT Infantry