Soulja wrote:Peeling is what tankers call it when a force doesn't pierce the armor of a tank but the shockwave actually turns everything inside it into shrapnel including the inner layer of the armor which has been know to "Peel" away shredding the crew.
...as for the OPORDER you got me there, I don't know much about that, I just fix shit for the guard.
What you call "peeling" is what I am used to calling "spalling". As the crewman of an armored vehicle, I am well aware of what spalling can do. But as mentioned above, very very few IED's would have the directional force to actually cause spalling inside an Abrams (or most other MBT). APC's yes, but not heavy armor.
OPORDER is what is known as an Operations Order. It's a battle plan format that relays all necessary information about an operation, and is designed in a set format. In any combat planning, using an OPORDER is vital. I am not sure what other countries use, but our version surely works wonders. You got the others correct, maybe I should have used some other rare terms. I was trying to make a point that not everyone knows all terms and acronyms.
I am not saying that an IED might injure the crew, but it would take such a large IED to do so that it would no longer be deployable in the same fashion as we use now. I think Jonny's suggestion at testing gravity settings out further might improve the physics of some current "bugs", but it will take a LOT of testing and math. My arguement is that the size of the IED's we use in PR is not enough to do much to armor. Use of AT mines, RPG's, ATGM's, etc will be our only real means of man-deployed anti-armor. Just too bad the engine doesn't allow IED's to disable tracks.
Here is a quoted description of spalling as it applies to armor:
In antitank warfare, spalling through mechanical stress is an intended effect of high explosive squash head (HESH) anti-tank shells and of many other munitions which may not be powerful enough to pierce the armor of a target. The relatively soft warhead (containing or made of plastic explosive) flattens against the armor plating on tanks and other armored fighting vehicles and explodes, creating a shock wave that travels through the armor and breaks the softer metal on the inside. The resulting spall is dangerous to crew and equipment, and may result in a partial or complete kill of a vehicle. Many AFVs are equipped with spall liners inside their armour for protection.
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