09 March 2025

Lumanumb

According to Pyramid Magazine 3/85 the DR of an inch of "high strength" aluminum is 35.

This is different from what I'd found earlier.

It makes more sense too, I think.  Otherwise we'd have gone to aluminum armor for MBT's before we realized how it liked to burn.  We made a LOT of Bradleys before we admitted that.

Posted by Angus McThag at 23:41
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  1. Paul Chappell11 March, 2025 20:03

    Yup, as one who commanded M-113's and Bradleys... Well, it did not help me sleep. We got to "live fire test" on the 1 US made vehicle we found abandoned in Iraq... It was one of the M-113's we Engineers were riding around in, so after taking the parts we could we decided to see just how good the armor REALLY was against our weapons... Spoiler, it was terrible. And the RPG we "test fired" to the side armor made it all go up in smoke...

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    1. Angus McThag11 March, 2025 20:51

      I worried about my crunchy brothers in their 113's when I saw all the perforated, and similarly protected, M114 hulks at Graf. It were obvious that it didn't take much to punch the armor on those.

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