are squash heads round still viable against tanks with the latest upgrades?
>>65270522No, they've been obsolete since HEAT and spaced armor. You fell for a British cope.
I don't think anyone has used squash since composite and ablative armour which was retrofitted even in the 70s.
>>65270522Ever since spall liners became common squash heads are ineffective against armor. You would have known this if you bothered to do more than 5 seconds of search.
How often does a HESH hit a target but bounce off instead of sticking?It should also be easily affected by the slope of the armor.
>>65270528Then why does the USA still use HEP? The M728 uses it. HESH has never been used to defeat armor in the modern sense, it is used for deleting reinforced structures and light vehicles. The Bongs used DU rounds for tanks.
>>65270522Short answer, no. We started adding spall liners in the 80s and most composite armor is pretty resistant to HE. You'd need a HESH round big enough to break the structure to actually kill a tank.>>65270562Less than you'd think. https://youtu.be/-9pF2XNtnqk?si=TwT8kkEdCFCz2eEKTL;DR: The HESH round tends to detonate before sliding off the armor. >>65270571This. Brits love the HESH because the biggest threat was often infantry in cover. And American air strikes but that's an unrelated matter.
>>65270522I'm sure it'll still fuck up a T-72/T-90 just fine.
>>65270560>You would have known this if you bothered to do more than 5 seconds of search.It's a zigger slide thread
>>65270630Is that the one with armor so brittle you can crack it with a sledgehammer?
>>65270739>It's a zigger slide threadI doubt it, there's nothing worth sliding right now and we'll find a new thread to dunk on Russia in once some more kino emerges.It's more likely some lonely autist like the bond threads or the retarded frog poster.
>>65270891>Sevastapol without power>But this isn't another pathetic slide threadSure thing, tovarich
>>65270739>>65270891>>65270908HESH is more of a Britbong thing. Doesn't make much sense for a vatnik to be posting about it.
>>65270911>HESH was shit right?>TOTALLY NOT A SLIDE THREAD!
>>65270916HESH is shit Against Tanks but most of the time Tanks aren't fighting Tanks. Most of the time, Tanks are facing Infantry in cover or lighter AFVs and for that HESH is pretty good.
I don't think even the Bongs use HESH any more, unless they made weird fin ones for their new smoothbore gun. But HESH wasn't wanted for tanks, it was for bunkers, buildings, heavy cover and light vehicles. Which it was extremely good at dealing with.
>>65270934You sure? I think the Challenger 2 still uses a Rifled Gun.
>>65270624>This. Brits love the HESH because the biggest threat was often infantry in cover.HESH is bad round against infantry and cover.
>>65270739>zigger slide threadwhat mental gymnastics do you have to do to conclude that any question about a niche topic like this has to do with a war between two slavic shitholes that was only relevent like 3 years ago
>>65270981the original purpose was to blast concrete more effectively and they realized it could also be used against tanks of the time
>>65270981>infantry and cover.But not infantry IN cover?
>>65271060>the original purpose was to blast concrete more effectivelyHESH is shit against concrete.11kg HE round with concrete penertiifuse does more damage to concrete that 165mm 30 kg HESH round with 15 kg if explosives
>>65270522>high temp jet of gasit's not a jet of gas, and it's not very hot either.
>>65270522>>65271724I highly recommend reading this article on HEAT warheads.https://euro-sd.com/2024/06/articles/38841/the-most-misunderstood-weapon-in-the-world-mythbusting-heat-warheads-and-their-countermeasures/
