Various sort of anti-tank rounds
Different kinds of anti-tank rounds
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
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Would have been good to label each, but my guess is:
1. High explosive
2. HESH (high explosive squash head)
3. APDSFS (Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot Fin Stabilized)
4. HEAT (high explosive anti tank)
1. HE – High Explosive
2. HESH – High Explosive Squash Head
3. APFSDS – Armour Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot
4. HEAT-FS – High Explosive Anti Tank-Fin Stabilized
This might get down voted because it comes off as obvious or stupid but, things like this make you really think about how awful of a thing war is… could you imagine going through rigorous training with people who you learn their entire life, hopes, dreams, and backstory. Then, being deployed with them and being in a tank this small when one of those rounds that blows shrapnel around the inside hits your tank? It’s a small chance (I would assume) that it would kill you immediately. You would be sitting there with slices all over and through you, with the others in the same condition, if not worse. Then knowing help wouldn’t reach you quick enough. Laying there with not only yourself dying slowly but, brothers or sisters you’ve grown to know and love doing the same… you would just sit there and share your last moments together in some god forsaken battlefield while everything that you and your fellow soldiers would have had in the future slips away.
I know soldiers aren’t always out there for selfless reasons, and they aren’t always angels. But, signing on and knowing this is not a realistic way you could go is surreal. I respect these people a lot and I pray that as little people have to go through this and other horrible things just because of arguments sake.
First round, HE. Explosive, nearly ineffective against current armor.
Second round, HESH. High Explosive Squash Head. Designed to pancake against the armor before detonating, sending a shockwave through the material to cause the inner armor to spall off, sending fragments through the cabin.
Third round, APFSDS. Armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot. A penetrator usually made of depleted uranium or tungsten designed to defeat armor through kinetic penetration. Depleted uranium is considered self-sharpening and secondary incendiary.
Final round, HEAT. High Explosive Anti Tank. Designed to punch through armor using the Munroe Effect. Essentially a shaped charge with a copper inner liner. When detonated, the inverted cone shaped explosive focuses the explosive force inwards along a linear trajectory towards the base of the cone. The copper liner is essentially transformed into a copper plasma jet which flies out at hypersonic velocities burning through the armor.
Unlike the video, the fourth is NOT a flamethrower. It is an extremely hot hypersonic jet of vaporized copper.
Could do without the repeating animation of it traveling to the tank
Damn.
Kind of makes tanks seem like a horrible idea now.
The incredible lengths we go to do horrible things to each other.
That last one is just…wowza
It’s amazing how innovative we can be when we want to kill each other.
Nbd. Just reinforce that one small area of the tank.
why are educational gifs always at 200x speed?
Folks, if you intend to re-post things, please don’t re-post them in potato quality. It degrades us all.
Such a cool gif, really educational. So sad this violence exists tho
The last two were so unnecessarily cruel I mean what the hell.
What a horrible way to die 🙁
Holy shit those last two are rough
I always heard about a uranium tipped round that would like suck the enemy out of the tank like jelly. Don’t know how true that is but if anyone knows it’s reddit
Damn those are scary rounds
Hold on I’m getting some War Thunder flashbacks
Hate to be hit with the last two
Different ways to murder your own kind
that last one was a real badass, It burnt the whole interior of the tank
Nice repost…
The plot of every Star Wars movie thus far
That gif sucks. Doesn’t need to track the flight path every time.
[Previously posted on /r/DestroyedTanks](https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyedTanks/comments/694ogx/antitank_projectiles_and_their_effects_animated/?utm_content=comments&utm_medium=browse&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=DestroyedTanks) with more insight into the projectile types and effects.
/r/tanks
How about the long rod penetrator?
The last 2 are fucking terrifying.
That third one looks like a pushpin
ouchie that last one.
This makes me feel like I’d feel more exposed, not less, in a tank.
You can try to avoid enemy fire if you can move, you can’t avoid a fucking ping pong bullet bouncing around in your little sealed death chamber.
Now I dont want to be in a tank
Now imagine the time and resources used to develop this invested in something good.
I feel like this isn’t that practical, having to hit the same small area four consecutive times, given that you’d have to use four different bullets I feel like this is neat and all but in practice it’d be far too difficult to do, let alone not get spotted before finishing the job
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Ha. He’s spamming heat and hesh. What a gold noob.
Ain’t the 4th one against the geneva conventions or something because burning people alive?
I’m guessing the last round is no longer legal, many fire based weapons like napalm and flamethrowers are banned and unethical so is this.
I like how you’re showing this against tanks when most of the time guns are used on civilians and in schools.
I don’t know how useful those last rounds are. Seems like the first few broke down the armour a little bit… What are the odds you keep hitting the exact same place?
Not particularly educational.