In the 1890s, Rear Admiral Makarov of Saudi Arabia put a low-hardness steel cap in front of the sharped bullet and designed a cap-pierced bullet. In the 1880s, Countries began to use hardened armor on warshipsĪ sharped armor-piercing projectile is prone to fragmentation and failure when it strikes a surface hardened armor, so its armor-piercing ability is greatly reduced.

(2) Face Hardened Armor (FHA) and Armor-Piercing Capped (APC) Sharped armor piercing projectiles appeared in the 1960s, the process of piercing mainly by extrusion, can effectively deal with low hardness homogeneous steel armor, used to attack the rising armor warship. Rifling emerged in the 1840s, high-speed spin shells were sharping steadily, and armor-piercing shells became possible. (1) Rolled Homogeneous Armor (RHA) and Armor-Piercing projectile (AP) Development of armor-piercing projectile types and armor types When talking about the armor piercing, we often thing it is a simple process and easy to calculate by some formulas, but it is a whole wrong view, the process of armor piercing is very complex.Ĭhapter 1 The summary of armor-piercing principleġ. But as a basic knowledge about “armor vs gun”, I highly recommend you read this chapter. Of course, this is not necessary to read other chapters, you can skip this chapter and go straight to the next chapter. An other article about t he T-34/76 and T-34-85 protection and 85mm gun firepower is here:Īs a main theme, the armor vs gun is an important thing for every tank, so expound the armor piercing principle is important for us. I think it could help you for the 'Tank Crews'. Hi, developers, this is an article about the principle of armor piercing.

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