Yak-9T - incredible firepower (or maybe incredible tank's lack of armor?)

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Originally Posted by majorfailure

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.

Bounce?
It's not about bouncing.
I've seen a a t54 where a flechette went right through it, entering the turret on one side, leaving the hull on the other side just above the tracks.
Leaving just two tiny holes the diameter of a thumb, yet the crew would have 0 chance of survival.
Any penetrator will tear off metal from the exit hole. Those are tiny fragments, with razor sharp edges, at very high speed.
And the best: They are super hot, able to ignite the hydraulics in your tank.

Yes, but you need LARGE rounds for that (~75mm+ -and then even HE rounds can destroy tanks),

answered above.

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.

I never claimed a .50 can cause spalling(although it will go right through an m113 btw, lol), or disable tracks.