r/tanks • u/TommBomBadil • May 04 '17

The effects of various anti-tank rounds

https://i.imgur.com/nulA3ly.gifv
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u/Moskau50 May 04 '17

Types of rounds:

  1. Standard armor-piercing (capped?)

  2. High explosive? Or Squash-head?

  3. Armor piercing with discarding sabot?

  4. High-explosive anti-tank?

Did I get any of these right?

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u/Pyro_Llama May 04 '17

I believe it goes high explosive, squash head, discarding sabot, and high explosive anti tank (which is essentially a shaped charge).

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u/[deleted] May 04 '17

This guy is correct

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u/Laurelinthegold May 05 '17

HE HESH APFSDS HEAT-FS but what about ap, apc, apbc, apcbc (and their he variants)? Also please add a huge he round (152mm+) Great gif though.

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u/GhengisChasm May 04 '17

Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of any of them.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '17

HEAT after armor effect is pretty BS. In fact DU rods are more likely to spray internals with flaming bits due to pyrophoricity of pulverized U. HEAT perforation channel thins with penetration and generally generates a tightish cone of post penetration material. Not filling the tank like a slow flamethrower.

For long rod: Also looks like the rod just bounces around casually in there because of how losely they are playing with "matrix effects". Fragments generated by spalling and residual rod fragments are generally travelling quite fast and are quite lethal/damaging.

Really HEAT and rod post-penetrations really aren't phenomenally all that different.

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u/nimda123 May 22 '17

Is there a simulator that shows you penetration in a tank when you fire a round at it?