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From: amoss@cs.huji.ac.il (Amos Shapira)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Reactive armor
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Date: 19 Jun 91 01:16:15 GMT
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From: Amos Shapira <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il>
Brian Ross writes:
|A lot of postings on tank technology mention reactive armor. What
|nobody mentions is what it's like for the crew of a tank when an
|incoming projectile is rejected by reactive armor.

This issue has allready been addressed in this group a few months ago. The
consensus was that the crew almost doesn't know that the tank was hit and
that even firing the tank's own gun gives much more impact than a hit by a
shaped charge with a reactive armour.

Cheers,               | "We took of, flew, bombed, returned, landed".
Amos Shapira          |        The summery of the commander of the Israeli
amoss@cs.huji.ac.il   |        raid on the Osirak reactor in '82