Thread: HESH vs HEAT
View Single Post
Old 05-20-2007, 05:36 AM   #3 (permalink)
pdf27
Contributor
 
pdf27's Avatar
 
Join Date: 06-05-06
Location: UK
Posts: 538
Country:
Well, not MBT armour anyway. I suspect that 20kgs of plastic explosive on the surface of an IFV will do it a lot of no good.

IIRC the longest ranged tank-tank kill in history was a Challenger 1 firing HESH during the 1990/91 Gulf war - a little over 5000m. As it's a rifled chemical energy round, it has the same lethality over it's entire range.
__________________
Rule 1: Never trust a Frenchman
Rule 2: Treat all members of the press as French
pdf27 is offline   Reply With Quote