The HVAP round tended to enter and ricochet around inside, the HEAP round tends to send a high temperature splatter around. Either injury was grevious. Even a standard non-HVAP was still chugging along at speeds above pistol ammo, but as big as your fist...
Arms legs, and sundry body parts missing, complete or near complete incineration, sometimes even just a bio jelly left in the tank bottom, all tended to result in a "Get out!" when hit...
And the Sherman "Easy Eight" with 76MM gun firing HVAP (500 meters/115MM Armor) had a chance of penetrating any German armor inside 250-300 yards... i
t's one of the reasons the Panzers avoided city fighting...
Jammer
Only a very few tanks had fire suppression in WW-II.
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03-01-2011, 05:00 PM
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