On 6/20/15, Greg Chalik <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> The chances that a small (~100g) penetrator rod of causing serious enough
> damage to destroy an MBT is small, but not to be discounted of course.

Destruction is unnecessary. All that's required is a mission kill. A
few percentage points worth of the penetrator or accompanying
explosive/fragmentation products traversing the corpus of one or more
vehicle crew members should accomplish this admirably.

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Richard Aiken

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