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TheLoneWolf posted a new activity comment 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Awesome, FYI the last two (in order) are APDSFS (Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot Fin Stabilized, they are like a dart and travel usually around 1000+ Ft per second, using their kinetic energy to punch a small hole in the armor and it helps if the crew is close together for maximum damage.) The other is HEATFS (High Explosive Anti-Tank Fin…[Read more]

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Kacpo replied 5 months, 2 weeks ago

The other two are:
High Explosive, or, High Explosive Armor Piercing
which would explode inside the tank if it managd to pierce the armor. The oldest type of ammunition.
High Explosive Squash head.
It’s not supposed to pierc the armor, but to sqash on impact and explode, causing the spalls to break off the armor on the other side and fly into…[Read more]
- Lance replied 5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Would you all believe that most of the modern anti-tank shells where already used in WW2. Primitive and scarce but they where there.
  Here an interesting fact: When the Germans encountered the Russian T34 their Panzer 3 and 4 AT ammo had massive problems with penetrating the armor so they used High-Explosive shells instead which had basically the…[Read more]

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