cottleta@uunet.UU.NET (Tim Cottle) (02/04/91)
From: ingr!b11!b11!cottleta@uunet.UU.NET (Tim Cottle) In article <1991Jan28.041718.10532@cbnews.att.com> JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Larry W. Jewell) writes: > > >Thought 2: Anyone know the title for a good work on Allied plans to >invade Nippon? Seems like the time to read it. A few years ago I read a book called, I believe, _Burning Mountain_ by Alfred Coppel (the author I'm much more sure of). It involved a conventional invasion of the Japanese home islands. -- | Timothy A. Cottle | | | Workstation Systems Development | Mit der Dummheit kampfen | | Intergraph Corp. | Gotter selbst vergebens. | | Huntsville, AL 35894-0001 | | | b11!sys26k!cottleta | --Schiller | | cottleta@b11.ingr.com | |
rudedog@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Parick J Volk) (02/04/91)
From: "Parick J Volk" <rudedog@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Anyway, reactive armor is a form of layered explosive over the steel armor of existing tanks. The purpose of the armor is to counteract the contact of an explosive charge (i.e. a LAW, or other AP explosive device) with a counter explosion. Light anti-tank weapons use primarily a shaped armour-piecing explosive charge, and this is what reactive armour is designed against. There have been some approached to counter reactive armors, and the most promising is the use of a densified uranium sabot, shot at high velocity. The intent to be to enter the compartment faster than the abilty of the armor to react.