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I don't think you technically need to absorb the recoil. Check out the EFP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator https://en.wikipedia.o
by GhettoMaestro 7y ago
I don't think you technically need to absorb the recoil.
Check out the EFP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator
EFPs were what turned out Humvees to swiss-cheese in Iraq before we switched over the MRAPs.
- subroutine 7y agoAh this is what I wanted to know. If you ignite a shaped projectile with nothing to push on but air, will it go "An EFP 20 cm (8 inches) in diameter threw a 3 kg (7 lbs) copper slug at Mach 6, or 2,000 meters per second. (A .50-caliber bullet, among the most devastating projectiles on the battlefield, weighs less than two ounces and has a muzzle velocity of 900 meters per second.) — Rick Atkinson, The Washington Post"