The mental image which is working well enough for me is a series of tightly packed bullets with each one digging the hole a little deeper than the last one. Of

The mental image which is working well enough for me is a series of tightly packed bullets with each one digging the hole a little deeper than the last one. Of course the shaped charge isn't a gun though and the stream of copper doesn't travel for hundreds of meters/yards. If you need to stand off from the target you'd want to mount it as the payload of a rocket and fire towards thine enemies. EDIT: this is of course a better description: https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/bullets2-shaped-charge.htm https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/bu... So the rod is traveling so fast that it and the target act like liquids, even though it isn't molten.