From: Bobby Joe Pendleton II (bobbyjoe@chartertn.net)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 12:43:15 PDT
you can also double wall it and put sand in between the walls
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From: "Employee@MilVeh.com" <milveh@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Cold roll
> Was it the stated purpose of the gun trucks to use
> cold roll steel to stop RPG rounds????!
>
> I suppose if the angle of attack was greater than
> 75-80 degrees, the angle of attack deflection factor
> would likely stop most RPG's. Better than nothing.
> However, to think our military would use steel plate
> to stop RPG's would be wrong.
>
> You have to consider the military, anyone's military,
> is often forced to use make-shift materials to fill a
> void in an urgent circumstance. The ability to
> provide some protection, probably about 50-60%
> effective protection from most small arms, up to .308
> cal.(7.62x51) is better than nothing and it achieved
> with 1/4" cold roll, angle of attack not withstanding.
> AK47- 7.62X39 rounds are less powerful and likely the
> protection would be somewhere around 80% or better
> depending on the range and angle...angle being the
> most important. Sure, AP rounds are going to punch
> 1/4", no doubt about it, but again it's better than
> nothing and I think that was the original intent.
> There is also the concealment factor, that helps too.
> Anything to bring the odds up is good, right?
>
> Ceramic steel armor plate would be far better, but a
> little hard to buy off the shelf today.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth and I have shot a lot of steel
> plates with a lot of various rounds!
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Gavin Broad <invest@portsmouth-mann.com> wrote:
> > Hi Chaps,
> >
> > I would be very interested to hear what protection
> > cold-rolled steel
> > will provide against an RPG round .........and I
> > want to hear from
> > people who KNOW, NOT from those with an opinion.
> >
> > As a qualified metallurgist ( albeit in a former
> > incarnation), I can
> > only imagine that it would be like holing up a
> > newspaper, when, before,
> > one only had arsewipe.
> >
> > Just a thought.
> > Gavin in yet-to-be-blown-up Bangkok.
> > Gav.
> >
> >
> >
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