Re: [HoE] [HOPLER] AP ?

["Steve Davidson, RN" <goofazoid@earthlink.net>]

Steve Crow wrote:

"...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...."

Well I must say that those HEAT rounds he is referring to are 1) nasty
and 2) not grenades! Those are rounds fired from tank main guns,
artillery, or are the warheads of things like TOW missiles (Tube
launched Optically tracked Wired guided).
-Steve
"the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!"