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Artificial diamond? But it doesn't matter - you don't actually want something hard because you don't actually want it to go all the way through and out the othe
by RantyDave 7y ago
Artificial diamond? But it doesn't matter - you don't actually want something hard because you don't actually want it to go all the way through and out the other side. You want it to dump all that lovely kinetic energy into whatever it's hit.
- SEJeff 7y agoYeah, DU has an incendiary property along with a "self sharpening" property. It doesn't mushroom as much when used as a sabot round as tungsten. My platoon sergeant in the US Army was a former tanker and we learned all about it (I flew the Shadow 200 TUAV).