Question: After so many years

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by Roman

Now I have two questions:

1) How is called artillery ammunition destroying vehicles and tanks? FH?
2) HE ammo is more powerful cannon artillery assault that hint? And assault guns are more apt to destroy bunkers?

In the "old" days artillery was pretty much just High Explosive. On rare occasions an artillery round would land in top a tank where the armor is fairly thin and destroy it, or right next to it and blow off a track to damage the engine. If it was a really large round the concussion might shake the tank so badly the crew inside was injured.

These days many nations use Cluster Munitions, these are roughly golf ball size munitions that are packed inside artillery and spread to cover a large area. Some are specifically designed to punch thru the thin top armor on a tank, and since many are carried in each artillery shell there's a good chance a few will actually land on top a tank.

Most bunkers have very heavy reinforcement on their top specifically to keep artillery and bombs from destroying them, but an assault gun or tank hits the front/side/back which will still thick is no where near at thick as the top.