Re: [MV] Improvised armor for MV in Iraq

At 12:30 PM -0500 12/14/04, Steve Grammont wrote:[color=blue]
>
>After a long debate about this several years ago we came to the same
>conclusion. The debate was prompted by a study of the extensive use of
>sandbags on US armor in the ETO in order to defeat German Panzerfaust AT
>weapons. One side made the mistake of claiming that the sandbags must
>have worked otherwise people wouldn't have used them. This is a very bad
>starting point for an argument revolving around physics :-) Looking at
>real world modeling and simple common sense we concluded that those
>tankers back then were doing themselves far more harm than good, they
>just didn't know it.[/color]

The same could be said for the profusion of track links and other
materials that increased the number of shot traps on the exterior of
the armor.

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