Path: spln!rex!dex!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: news@google.com Delivery-Date: Thu Nov 08 16:36:04 2001 Delivery-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 16:36:04 -0800 for <sci-military-moderated@retro.com>; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:36:03 -0800 (PST) for <sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org>; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:19:43 -0800 (PST) for <sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org>; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:19:42 -0800 for <sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org>; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:19:41 -0800 for sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:19:41 -0800 To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org From: cray74@hotmail.com (Mike Miller) Newsgroups: sci.military.moderated Subject: Re: The M1 armour and a DU sabot round? Date: 8 Nov 2001 16:19:41 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5dcb47db.0111081619.2f51e99e@posting.google.com> References: <3beaa565.1250034@news.btinternet.com> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.78.180.81 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com X-NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Nov 2001 00:19:41 GMT Content-Length: 795 Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: c8159bbf.newsreader.tycho.net X-Trace: 1005268710 gemini.tycho.net 79562 205.179.181.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tycho.net Xref: spln sci.military.moderated:40084 christopher_edmondson@btinternet.com wrote in message news:<3beaa565.1250034@news.btinternet.com>... > We all know how effective a M1's DU sabot is at going through a tanks > armour, but could a M1 survive a DU hit, in either the DU armoured > version or the chobham armoured version? The M1 (and M1A1 and M1A2) always has Chobham armor. Some models of the M1A1 (I think it's the -A1) add DU plates to enhance the Chobham armor. As for the resistance to DU sabot (presumably armor piercing, fin stabilized, discarding sabot, DU)...I dunno. What caliber shell? Where was the M1 hit? I suspect the M1 in all models is capable of surviving a hit from existing 105-125mm cannons on its frontal turret and frontal body armor. I await more informed answers myself. Mike Miller, Materials Engineer