Re: [MV] 'Electric armour' vaporizes anti-tank grenades and shell s

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 09:35:39 PDT


At 12:31 PM -0700 8/24/02, Jarrett Redd wrote:
>Or perhaps non-conductive warheads?

The whole function of the shaped charge is a sheet of copper that is
formed into a slug by the HE charge. If you use something that isn't
conductive in the first place it might work, but then it also might
not penetrate nearly as well.

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