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From: denbeste@spdcc.com (Steven Den Beste)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Effects inside tank
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.045630.5898@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 04:56:30 GMT
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From: denbeste@spdcc.com (Steven Den Beste)

In article <1991Feb27.015526.18943@cbnews.att.com> john%ghostwheel.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:

%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 might suggest that the sound inside the tank from its OWN gun going off
would be louder than that from a round going off outside its armor.
Don't tankers have to wear major-league ear protection?

(...and then again, I might not suggest it.)