| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Rocket pods |
| Date: | Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:45:48 +0100 |
> Which may well happen in SR given the APC in fields of fire has 12
> points of armour which is lots for SR, plus 4 body and it looks awful
> like an M113 which in military terms has a 'tinfoil' armour rating.
It probably depends... I've got a photo somewhere of an M113 that took a
HEAT round (probably from an RPG-2) in the side, and all that happened to
its outside is that it has a large, shallow dent in the armor with a small
hole in the center. Since in the picture, mechanics are repairing one of
the wheels, I assume it's still usable. (Unless they're salvaging the
wheels for use on another M113 of course :)
OTOH I've also a photo of an M113 that's been blown apart completely, with
its torsion bars sticking up into the air...
> So yes extrapolation armour factors you could need to hit with 10
> rockets to kill an MBT, which in reality means firing a lot more than
> that, again SR always stresses accuratcy over quantity which is not
> true of weapons of this type.
You could extrapolate modern developments surrounding these kinds of
rockets into SR. Modern attack helicopters can fire them with much greater
accuracy than they could 25 years ago, and if this trend continues (better
fire control, more accurate rockets, etc.) SR's situation could become
more or less reality.
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