From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 20:47:13 PDT
At 10:36 PM -0500 8/25/02, Dave Cole wrote:
>Something is wrong with this story. I understand how capacitors
>work, but a shaped charge that is powerful enough to penetrate 1' of
>steel is going to blow
>right through thin armor, and destroy the capacitor, and do some
>serious damage to the lightly armored hull.. There has to be more
>to this than what was
>described, if it does work. Perhaps this is the "public"
>explanation regarding what is going on.
Dave the idea is that you use the Cap to build a massive potential
difference between the inner layer and outer layer. When the shaped
charge slug is forced through to the second layer, you get a massive
dump of current to the second layer from the first through the copper
slug. The copper slug gets vaporized by the huge current/voltage
difference. In theory, this should stop the shaped charge slug/jet
just as throwing a plate or opposing explosive charge at it does.
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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