Amorphous tungsten indeed has many of the properties of depleted Uranium, as does Nanocrystalline tungsten materials (which, by the way, is superior in density and structural integrity to amorphous tungsten). One property it doesn't have is low cost. Pouring and milling and forging the penetrators would cost a fortune (it's not just a simple spike, it has be to milled into a single big crystal in order to go through the adiabatic shear banding, otherwise it would simply snap in two after twisting around a couple of times in the armor.)Originally Posted by discovery1
http://ciar.org/ttk/mbt/papers/symp_19/VM05(913.pdf
Nanocrystalline tungsten for you. God I love that stuff, especially with the correct type of jacketing.
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