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Of course, the idea of firing a smaller projectile at a higher speed to achieve the same penetration/destruction isn't news -- the Germans tried it during WWII with the Gerlach (squeeze bore) guns with mixed success -- and it is the priciple behind APDS. The real questions here are: First, can the weapon be made to work and too be light enough to still mount in the kind of vehicles they're talking about? Second, will it be possible to make the projectile deadly and still (a) conserve strategic materials (the Germans ran out of Tungsten to use for the squeeze bore projectiles) and (b) be affordable in an era of declining defense budgets?Ta for now, Abraham
Of course, the idea of firing a smaller projectile at a higher speed to achieve the same penetration/destruction isn't news -- the Germans tried it during WWII with the Gerlach (squeeze bore) guns with mixed success -- and it is the priciple behind APDS. The real questions here are: First, can the weapon be made to work and too be light enough to still mount in the kind of vehicles they're talking about? Second, will it be possible to make the projectile deadly and still (a) conserve strategic materials (the Germans ran out of Tungsten to use for the squeeze bore projectiles) and (b) be affordable in an era of declining defense budgets?
Ta for now, Abraham
