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    Rather than "armor", per se, I think it's to pre-trigger and mess up the offset distance for explosively-formed penetrators.

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    Noisy ****er!

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    I'll bet you could hear it coming from 5 miles away. The rattle made by all that chain had to be deafening!

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    Quote Originally Posted by McDesign View Post
    Rather than "armor", per se, I think it's to pre-trigger and mess up the offset distance for explosively-formed penetrators.
    Most likely correct, similar things are still used. Get it to blow up just a little early and the perpetrator just scorches the tank and wakes up the guys inside.

    Modern explosive armor is similar, only the armor actually blows up to disrupt any delayed charge that is in the missile intended to defeat the early shield. Anti-anti-anti-countermeasure...or something like that.

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    Looking at the metal tracks (no rubber pads) and the general racket those things make anyway, prob hear the thing coming on hard surfaces from quite a distance regardless.

    Had the aussie version parked at the entry to a base I worked at in a past life. Boss had the illusion the mechanics could get her going after sitting there for years. No luck as one could imagine, but I got a good look at it inside and in the engine bay. No complaints about about the nice easy auto trans in the Leopards that replaced em.

    Old man used to transport em around in the 60s. Has a few good stories about dickheads that tried to sneak inside on the left at intersections - to transport one by road in those days it was truck, dolly, float and a push truck A framed to the back.

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    Sorry for replying to a year old thread, but my 2 cents: It is really hard for an opponent gunner to see weak points through that chain. Viewports, hatches, weld lines, places that give a much higher chance of allowing your round to get in and do some damage.

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    Or maybe, the rattling chain noise scared folks who grew up being frightened of Marley's ghost in A Christmas Carol.

    Just spit-balling here.



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