Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: Charles.K.Scott@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (Charles K. Scott) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Effects inside tank Message-ID: <1991Mar12.232952.601@cbnews.att.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 23:29:52 GMT References: <1991Feb26.011553.5289@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (william.b.thacker) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 27 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Charles.K.Scott@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (Charles K. Scott) 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! In a book recently published consisting of various remembrances of WW II combat was a section about a pilot who flew a Piper Cub to spot for artillery. While he was flying in Italy, he chanced upon a Tiger tank, and quickly called in fire on it. He observed frequent near misses and occaisional hits. I don't recall the caliber of the artillery, but he went on to say that the tank kept crawling along in the midst of the barrage, then discourged a crew member, aparently from the belly hatch. This man never moved and the pilot conjectured that he died from the concussion of the rounds hitting the tank. Eventually the tank rolled to a stop and began to smoke. The spotter claims to be the only air spotter to kill a tank in this fashion. From this account, I can surmise that a non penetrating hit can make life very difficult for a tanker, if the hit is from a round of sufficient caliber. Corky Scott