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7/2/2025, 11:42:24 AM
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>>63926725
>>63926021
Slat/cage armor has been a thing practically since the invention and proliferation of HEAT weapons. They are a great lightweight alternative to actual plate armor, as air works extremely well as armor against shaped charge warheads. With the commonality of the PG-7 warhead, its design has been taken into consideration for most modern slat armor designs.
It could also allow crew to leave their hatches open when not in front-line positions without having to worry too much about a curious little drone finding them and plopping a grenade straight down the hatch. If it goes off above the tank (even with the hatch open) much of the damage would be mitigated, at least for non T64-esque auto loading tanks.
>>63926021
I feel another point (at least for pic rel) isnt to stop the warhead, but to make it go off prematurely, duh. What I mean is that the warhead of an RPG-7 going off on while touching the flat side of an M113 will fuck up alot more than just a copper jet piercing into the crew compartment. Yes, casualties will result, but some of the crew could be lucky, and fatal casualties could be instead turned into severe, but non-mortal wounds. Many videos from Ukraine have shown that a HEAT warhead going off inside a vehicle isnt necessarily a lethal blow, and if it doesnt hit anything critical (Ammo, electrics, mechanical shit, or people) the damage is oftentimes a non-mission kill and necessitates multiple follow up shots.
This is true for the M1 Abrams, as the ammo is mostly localized to protected areas isolated from crew, but if the crew compartment itself is penetrated by a warhead, that is a potentially much bigger problem that having to use the blowout panels for what they were designed for.
>TLDR, it is better to have a jet of copper going through your AFV than having to worry about the former and potential spalling from the actual explosives forming the jet.
>>63926725
>>63926021
Slat/cage armor has been a thing practically since the invention and proliferation of HEAT weapons. They are a great lightweight alternative to actual plate armor, as air works extremely well as armor against shaped charge warheads. With the commonality of the PG-7 warhead, its design has been taken into consideration for most modern slat armor designs.
It could also allow crew to leave their hatches open when not in front-line positions without having to worry too much about a curious little drone finding them and plopping a grenade straight down the hatch. If it goes off above the tank (even with the hatch open) much of the damage would be mitigated, at least for non T64-esque auto loading tanks.
>>63926021
I feel another point (at least for pic rel) isnt to stop the warhead, but to make it go off prematurely, duh. What I mean is that the warhead of an RPG-7 going off on while touching the flat side of an M113 will fuck up alot more than just a copper jet piercing into the crew compartment. Yes, casualties will result, but some of the crew could be lucky, and fatal casualties could be instead turned into severe, but non-mortal wounds. Many videos from Ukraine have shown that a HEAT warhead going off inside a vehicle isnt necessarily a lethal blow, and if it doesnt hit anything critical (Ammo, electrics, mechanical shit, or people) the damage is oftentimes a non-mission kill and necessitates multiple follow up shots.
This is true for the M1 Abrams, as the ammo is mostly localized to protected areas isolated from crew, but if the crew compartment itself is penetrated by a warhead, that is a potentially much bigger problem that having to use the blowout panels for what they were designed for.
>TLDR, it is better to have a jet of copper going through your AFV than having to worry about the former and potential spalling from the actual explosives forming the jet.
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