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6/12/2025, 4:13:40 AM
>>2065010
>Javelins, ATGMs, etc are 10x as effective as a HEAT shell
Warhead size. A Javelin warhead is 19lbs, though that's going to include the copper liners. An M830 HEAT projectile is 25lbs, but a lot of that is made up of the casing, because it has to be sturdy enough to survive being thrown out the barrel. Trying to find a solid stat for the amount of HE is an exercise in madness, but it looks to be somewhere between 0.7 and 2 lbs of explosive. Some of that is just the square-cube law playing with that 7mm caliber difference, but I think most of it is that the Javelin is a tandem warhead, so it has to have a separate set of explosives for each liner.
>Javelins, ATGMs, etc are 10x as effective as a HEAT shell
Warhead size. A Javelin warhead is 19lbs, though that's going to include the copper liners. An M830 HEAT projectile is 25lbs, but a lot of that is made up of the casing, because it has to be sturdy enough to survive being thrown out the barrel. Trying to find a solid stat for the amount of HE is an exercise in madness, but it looks to be somewhere between 0.7 and 2 lbs of explosive. Some of that is just the square-cube law playing with that 7mm caliber difference, but I think most of it is that the Javelin is a tandem warhead, so it has to have a separate set of explosives for each liner.
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