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From: gahooten@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Greg A. Hooten)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: HEAT shell question and proposal.
Keywords: HEAT, Reactive armor, Blazer
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Date: 10 Jan 90 03:28:12 GMT
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From: gahooten@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Greg A. Hooten)

In article <12888@cbnews.ATT.COM> tiwasawa@netxdev.DHL.COM (Takashi Iwasawa) writes:

>This probably isn't workable because:
>
>>The other problem is that it may be too short a range, though
>>it shouldn't unless the reactive armour is thicker and more
>>resistant to penetration than I think.  
>>
>I don't understand this part.  The reactive armour is just a slab
>of plastic explosive cased in light boxes, I think.
>
>
What I ment was that the explosive has to be held in some type
of armoured box.  If the box is half inch plate steel (for
example) then the penetrator for my HEAT warhead does not need
to be very heavy duty compared to the 12-15 inches of armour
that the heat has to penetrate.  It would seem that the
penetrator would just be turned into more molten jet.  It is
the box and the slab that the penetrator needs to get through,
and the less this is, the less dense the penetrator needs to
be.  

As to weight, this might not be significant in tank weapons,
but would be for missiles.  I was mainly talking about tank
guns because I had never heard of a penetrtor type weapon in a
missile system.  

As to hitting square on the armour, I had no thought really of
it hitting square, sealing against the armour  was a very poor
choice of words.  I always picture the panzerfaust with a flat
head meeting armour and exploding, antiquated, but the image I
seem to see.  I guess the wat ot go about this would be to
have the penetrator on the end of the standoff rod allowing
penetration and standoff.  


>I hope that you find my comments useful.  I am solely responsible
>
>					Takashi Iwasawa
>					tiwasawa@netxdev.UUCP

Very, thanks

Greg