Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!gemini.tycho.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Approved: sci-military-moderated@retro.com Return-Path: ballingt@aol.com Delivery-Date: Fri Mar 29 15:46:03 2002 Delivery-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:46:02 -0800 for <sci-military-moderated@retro.com>; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:46:01 -0800 (PST) id 16r5mW-000431-00 for sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:27:40 +0100 with ESMTP id SAA01488 for <sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org>; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:27:32 -0500 (EST) To: <sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org> From: ballingt@aol.comremove (Terry Ballinger) Newsgroups: sci.military.moderated Date: 29 Mar 2002 23:26:48 GMT References: <e64faab.0203282009.5aba72f7@posting.google.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Subject: Re: RHA penetration of 25mm M919 from M242 Bushmaster? Message-ID: <20020329182648.06603.00000533@mb-mb.aol.com> Content-Length: 459 Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: e2788c36.newsreader.tycho.net X-Trace: 1017445379 gemini.tycho.net 79563 205.179.181.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tycho.net Xref: spln sci.military.moderated:43815 I heard a funny story last week at Knox. They say that using RHA equivalency to gage penetration performance is a lot like weighing pigs in Arkansas. They take a board, put it across a fence with the pig on one end. Then they pile up rocks on the other end until the board is horizontal, then guess the weight of the rocks. Terry Ballinger DTech Consulting, Inc. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke