Why take completely unhistorical approch to vehicles?

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by KnightFandragon

Ive always wondered what are the effects of a tank shell once they penetrate armor? Not modern day ones but WWII shells like the 75mm of the Sherman. It is so low velocity that it couldnt penetrate the front of anything but can penetrate the side, what does it do to "knockout" the tank. Ive always imagined a Sherman round penetrating the side of a panther tank and since the shell is Low Velocity it goes through the armor but loses all velocity and is left resting on the floor of the Panther.....while the Crew is just laughing and killing the Sherrmy. Anywho, Does the explosion of the shell light up ammo or something? To me it seems an AP round going into a tank just makes a hole, its like why get out? The tank still works.....If it doesnt light up or explode why bail out of it? Ive always wondered why crews bail from a mostly perfectly fine tank.

A heat round normally has a tungstan tip which punches a hole through the armour. Behind the tungstan tip the shell is nomally filled with copper and this liquifies due to kinetic energy and sprays through the hole forming pinhead sized balls with harden as they enter the tank crew area.
These buzz around inside bouncing from wall to wall like millions of pin sized tennis balls.
The end result resembles mince meat crew.
A normal heat round hit does not leave room for a bail out of crew.
Oddly enough the thinner the armour the more likely there is for a through and through which means unless you are in the way of the round everyone lives.
The modern RPG works on the same principle it is just delivered via rocket rather than round.