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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@Nov 9 2004, 07:29 PM
Actually this has very little to do with the argument of warhead versus armour.
The top and bottom armour isn't very heavy and actually defeatable. three large charged artillary charges or three anti-tank mines will provide plenty enough energy to tip a tank.
The side, front and rear armour is pretty tough to defeat especially when you consider that its reactive armour.
A sabot round would probably achieve burn through. A conventional anitank or heat round would not penetrate.
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The front, side and rear armour on an abrams isn't necessarily reactive armour...it can be fitted with it, but the actual main body of the vehicle isn't made of it.
And don't kid yourself, the armour on the bottom of these tanks, while nowhere near as thick as on the front, is still pretty damn thick. It would take a helluva blast to knock one of these things over...the M1 A2 variety of the tank weighs almost 70 tons. Three garden variety blast mines detonated simultaneously wouldn't budge one of these monsters.
Whatever did this was packing a huge amount of explosive energy.