Questions about soviet artillery and other in game

[DRG]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

I did see a T-62 that was taken out by a USMC LAV-25 during the first Gulf War.
The T-62 was stationary and they drilled a hole in it using the 25mm sabot rounds. As I recall the guy said it took about 100 rounds to do it

OK, fine but the issue was 12.7 mm rounds not something with 8 times the penetrative ability

Don

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by DRG

OK, fine but the issue was 12.7 mm rounds not something with 8 times the penetrative ability

Don

As Marcello said it was just an example of "could happen" given optimal conditions and lots of ammo.

I suppose you could do the same with 12.7mm AP rounds - eventually. Assume each round puts a 1mm divot in a tanks armor you could drill thru with a few hundred/thousand rounds!

Of course there are always folks fail to see the difference between possible and practical

[Marcello]

Do you know what part of the tank the picture features?

Hull front, as noted.

I would also be interested to know what rounds caused the various sized holes. Nice picture

152mm,122mm and 100mm, both AP and HE, and 85mm AP. US made 76mm was also fired but possibly only at the sides.

It looks more like something cluster ammo would cause.

Not really. HEAT typically leaves small diameter holes.Besides given the angles involved it would be very problematic.

BTW source is:
http://www.battlefield.ru