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Old 03-08-2008, 01:19 AM   #33 (permalink)
zraver
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Originally Posted by T_igger_cs_30 View Post
It is in fact Spalling we Brits effectionately call them "scabs" that come of on the inside of the turret and severly messes up a crews appearance obviously caused due to the CE created from the round hitting the outside, also just a point ZRAVER the points yuo mentioned regarding the rifled barrels and the stability of APFSDS, while there was some initial problems they were soon overcome and corrected, but the problems were no where near as bad as it sounded the way you wrote.
I would not call them soon over come, the UK kept HESH as its primary anti-armor round long after the advent of spaced armors and anti-spall liners. The L27A1 CHARM 3 did not enter service until 1999.
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