Ich
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As i wrote nearly 8 years ago at IMF on this APFSDS topic:
"If you accelerate a cow to speeds greater than Mach 25 then you can smash any tank with it."
This means it does not need DU, it needs velocity. And that is the problem with APFSDS. Chemical propellants are limited. Best score is at ~ 2060 m/s for an APFSDS (as far as i know).
And this is why all tank building countries try to ionize materials, mostly aluminum, to use the extrem spread of the developing plasma to accelerate APFSDS to velocities greater 3000 m/s - and more. But the designs of the patended plasmacannons so far are all to mental limited, all in standard tank cannon thinking.
"If you accelerate a cow to speeds greater than Mach 25 then you can smash any tank with it."
This means it does not need DU, it needs velocity. And that is the problem with APFSDS. Chemical propellants are limited. Best score is at ~ 2060 m/s for an APFSDS (as far as i know).
And this is why all tank building countries try to ionize materials, mostly aluminum, to use the extrem spread of the developing plasma to accelerate APFSDS to velocities greater 3000 m/s - and more. But the designs of the patended plasmacannons so far are all to mental limited, all in standard tank cannon thinking.