From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Dec 14 2004 - 09:55:51 PST
At 12:30 PM -0500 12/14/04, Steve Grammont wrote:
>
>After a long debate about this several years ago we came to the same
>conclusion. The debate was prompted by a study of the extensive use of
>sandbags on US armor in the ETO in order to defeat German Panzerfaust AT
>weapons. One side made the mistake of claiming that the sandbags must
>have worked otherwise people wouldn't have used them. This is a very bad
>starting point for an argument revolving around physics :-) Looking at
>real world modeling and simple common sense we concluded that those
>tankers back then were doing themselves far more harm than good, they
>just didn't know it.
The same could be said for the profusion of track links and other
materials that increased the number of shot traps on the exterior of
the armor.
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