Wow I just had to show you guys this!

http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n...nt=TankHit.flv

Don

Is that a TOW Don? That was my old MOS in the army in the 80's. I only got one live fire at a shell of a tank on a range. [] Needless to say, there were no secondary explosions as in this video, but it is an impressive weapon.

Thanks for sharing. When I had my live fire my platoon sergeant told me he had one with a tank with full complement of ammunition and a half tank of fuel. I always wondered what it looked like!

From What I can find that is an old shot of a Sagger for an episode of NOVA in the 1970's Still I would hate to be on the reciveing end.

Don

Okay to be honest. That is actually my bb shooting TIGER against a real tank Don't I wish....LOL

It does kind of look like something that Perry or ThomasJohnMurphy would rig up!!

Don, This is also on U-tube, with another, better angle. Was listed as an M-46, but it is actually an old Sweedish tank built on the Cromwell design and the filming was somewhere in Norway. Still not a nice place to stick around if you are hit.

I've seen a Heng Long do that all by itself............................


Darrin

Okay, now I have to replace my keyboard, note to self, don't drink coffee while reading posts here.

+1. I was out hunting down a mop and a bucket while you were typin' that Chris.

you sir have just won the internet !

No secondary explosions?

All that flashing is the ammo goin' off. despite the poor audio, you can here a few discrete bangs as shells and/contained propellant detonate. If that had been a crew'd tank, odds are they'd not have escaped. Listen to the audio.

Just as the counter hits 9 seconds, you hear the impact. At about 11.5 (after it rolled, but before 12) you hear a first bang, almost like a gunshot, and another, and another, and then you see the flaring as the most probable ignition source, the main gun shells, begin to detonate. Two seconds before secondary shrapnel begins flying = no survivors... unless someone was sitting half-out of a hatch, and jumped before or during the hit, or like Lt. Poole in WW2, got blown from his hatch.

The shells sympathetically detonate, until you see the near-continuous burn as they bring the temp inside high enough to get ~everything~ inside that is flammable to burn.

If this is a 20+ year old vid clip, today's anti-spall interiors limit this to some extent, as do ERA and other specialty add-on armor. Buty from what we hear out of the 'Sandbox', the old Russian RPG's are just as deadly. One hit can create an open hole, a follow-up round goes onto bare hull (if you're good) and then you cross your fingers and pray (if you're the enemy)

Only heard of that one disable, the side-shot on that Abrams that was on the i-net. One or two crew injured, minor damage to the tank. Crew was injured from either the round-fragments or spall-fragments (weren't that many)

Any others?

that was an interesting clip!