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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: reactive armor for ships
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Date: 2 May 89 03:29:49 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>The antiship warheads are not shaped charge and ships generally don't have 
>enough of a hull backing to prevent collateral damage.

Soviet antiship missiles are believed to use shaped charges, actually.
(Bloody large ones, too.)  However, the lack of hull backing is indeed
a problem.