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From: mailrus!sharkey!hela!iti.org!aws@uunet.UU.NET (Allen W. Sherzer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Tank killing crowbars
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.073525.12636@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 07:35:25 GMT
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From: mailrus!sharkey!hela!iti.org!aws@uunet.UU.NET (Allen W. Sherzer)
In article <1991Feb13.032640.27454@cbnews.att.com> dnwiebe@cis.ohio-state.edu (Dan N Wiebe) writes:
>The way I heard it, these orbital crowbars were based on the concept of
>hypervelocity.... [description deleted]

A weapon like this is in the works today. It is called the Hyper Velocity
Missile (HVM) and LTV is the prime. HVM is a chunk of depleted uranium
accelerated to mach 5 or so and then slams into a tank.

A friend is doing simulation of the tracker and he recently described one
of the test runs to me. They lined up four tanks side by side and launched
one of these things into the side of tank #1. The missile went through all
four tanks like the proverbial knife through butter. They thought that
the crew of a fifth tank *might* have survived.

   Allen

[mod.note:  Not much of a test if you ask me... side armor on tanks
is pretty flimsy, and not the most likely target. - Bill ]

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