Re: [HoE] [HOPLER] AP ?

["Paul Zichichi" <rook_7@hotmail.com>]

I have a quick explanation for the AP Grenade question that comes in a 
simple 1 hit Q&A:

1) Which kind of AP were these designed for?

If it's a "grenade" that's SERIOUS AP, then it's a HEAT round, "High 
Explosive Anti-Tank," which means that it penetrates the armor first, then 
blows a shaped charge INTO the hole, creating a super-heated jet of flame 
into the tank.  Man does THAT suck for the crew compartment. These babies 
can kill just about ANY modern tank on the battlefield.  I have a friend 
who's a tanker at a Texas Army base, and the horror stories he's heard about 
these tank-killers rounds are truly disgusting.

If it detonates, either in the air or on impact, into thousands of tiny 
fragments and shrapnel, then it's not technically an AP weapon, AP as armor 
piercing.  It's AP as in Anti-Personel, or "Beehive" grenades.  The military 
hasn't designed a grenade that spits out AP shrapnel, shrapnel does it's 
dirty work by being EVERYWHERE in the blast radius, traveling at 
ridiculously high speeds, usually too fast to actually penetrate anything 
serious as it can't maintain it's integrity, it just flattens.

And if it just explodes on contact, then its a HEAP grenade, High Explosive 
Anti-Personel.  Just a big ol' *BANG!* when it hits something solid and LOTS 
of concussion damage, which should ignore armor altogether, as it is 
entirely a shock-wave kind of damage.  The actual battle reports note the 
effect as leaving the body intact, but almost liquifying everything on the 
inside; bones, organs, you name it.

How they got it is irrelevant.  They exist now, they'll exist in the 
theoretical 2096, and they'll be FAR less protected than they are 
now.....ie: No military, no MP's, free grenades if you can find 'em.  Once 
they're found, they'll be hoarded like cans of Spam and MRE's, but that's a 
different issue.

At least, that's what I think, I could be wrong.....

Nah.

Paul "Whup-ass can opener" Zichichi

"I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, 
and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, `I helped skin 
Bob.'"

~Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts~


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