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    Magister Vitae Senior Member Kraxis's Avatar
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    Default Re: German Tanks in WW2 - the wrong conception

    I believe you are talking about the Javelin. That is one nasty weapon.
    I saw footage of a testfire against a T-72. The Javelin literally blew the T-72 to pieces. And I mean pieces! After the explosion the footage stops just as you see the turret drop to the ground and one of the tracks sprawled on the ground and lots of debris flying everywhere. The tank was gone. The cheers from the Javelin-crew was pretty believeable when you see that kind of destruction.
    Beat an Abrams? Hell yeah!

    The HEAT can indeed be used to open up walls, but its explosive capability is rather weak really. It is a pointed explosion so it doesn't have a lot of concussion that is needed to blow a house to pieces or really lay the smackdown. And it is very expensive.
    So if kagemusha could tell us how the results were, then perhaps we can determine the round used.

    Yes, the Leopard 2 and the Abrams have the same gun from Rheinmetall, so I assumed that they use the same ammo in general. Just like they did along with the UK with the old 105mm rifle.
    Last edited by Kraxis; 09-28-2005 at 23:21.
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