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Old 11-07-2013, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by swiss View Post
Uhhh - no.
What makes you think that is the case?
A SMALL round penetrating will not have a large spalling effect -especially if we talk about rounds, that lost most of their energy for penetrating, which will be the case for most aircraft fired rounds. And a SMALL round, that lost lots of energy is not going to bounce around inside the tank a lot.

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Again: You can disable an AFV without penetrating it by damaging the engine(protected only by light armor) or the tracks.
Yes, but you need LARGE rounds for that (~75mm+ -and then even HE rounds can destroy tanks), a .50cal is not going to cause spalling. And tracks, I doubt that even large rounds could damage most tank tracks - if not by fluke hits at the connecting bolt heads.
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