Message from @Tervy
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nah cutting armor plates is even more PITA even with wate&sand jet
and torch would ruin the plates
Right, the temper
What about chinkshit steel plate?
hmm alibaba
If you live near a rail hub or a major port it would be possibel
i do
1000 per metric ton
quite shitty price from BHW500
How thick are you getting it?
Layering thinner plates might be more economical
And easier to work with
if i were to do it i would need to test it with 7.62
sooo aprox 15mm tops
20mm for sure but weight...
54r?
Because I'm pretty sure 10mm of plate would take care of 99% of 7.62 x39 ammo
and most of of 8mm ones too
depends if you want to prevent warping%
thoo 7.62 iirc does penetrate 8mm of RHA armor plates
sooo~
or was it 7mm plates
cant remember
(those are for AP rounds*)
Steel body armour in the US is about 10mm with antispall coating (truck bed liner), I think
tho if i consider those plates would be between the outer and inner wallpanels the 7.62 would still penetrate reinforcement beams and just make the car "tincan with superball in it"
composites cost a shitton
Oh, nvm, you're talking about armour piercing
aluminium alloys are option but they are not that good (only for small arms fire)
(>implying my sprinter would ever see weapons outside of gunrange and controlled testing)
and i dont think i can could never afford composites or DU-Composites
If you're trying to stop armour pericong ammo you're fighting a losing battle
i know
but wondering how fucking heavy would AP-resistant (not proof) sprinter be
tho apparently RHA costs around 1k dollars for metric ton
Think it would depend on what and how you armour
if "slap on" plates on outer walls + extra on engineblock
it would add quite bit of weight
(lets not consider roof or bottom penetration a problem in this case