I never deployed myself, but we had to sit through a lot of classes on IEDs. Some of the shit they come up with takes some kind of impressive ingenuity.

Can't recall what the proper name for it is now, but there's a type made from an inverted copper cone and a whole bunch of explosives; The blast turns the cone into a spear of material that pierces the hull of a humvee and then goes clear through, spraying molten copper everywhere.

Shaped charge.

H.E.A.T

High Explosive Anti Tank, directional explosive, very short range, made for armor penetration, almost no shrapnal.

I believe they used another name for it, but yeah nah; That was the idea.

Monroe effect, shape charge, pressure shaped penetrator, all sorts of names for it.

What nead have they of Panzerfausts when RPG-7s are a dime a dozen?

At least one incident I can recall off of memory had a staff sergeant in the back seat of a humvee get both his legs blown off from the knee down from one of those.

Turns out he was the paranoid type though; Already had tourniquets on his legs.

Oof.

Mega oof.

Sort of couldn't help much during the ensuing ambush, aside from tossing magazines up through the gunner's hatch.

But uh, he lived.

Yeah, at least he lived.

Humvee's floor is barely anything, that was way overkill for that, would be like having a buzzsaw run though the cab

It came in from the side of the humvee, rather than the floor.

Pierced the right rear door, if I remember.

Happened to peg him through both legs, then just about the opposite side.

It will cleave though that like butter, HEAT charges really can only be stopped by tank levels of armor.

Humvee armor ain't exactly great anyway. My unit only had the older, unarmored ones anyway.

And those don't really feel safe just sort of driving around.

Fucking plastic doors, dude.

we had an M1 in my company get buzzed by a RPG7 into the right turret face, burnt the paint to a crisp and fucked up the dog house lense.

no pen though

the Humvee was never meant for the role it was pushed into

the uparmor kits where a joke.

Yeah, humvees are basically a plastic shell

I wasn't a tanker, but fuck me do I love the M1.

It's a love hate thing.

The only bird as pretty and amazing as mine is the A10

there is nothing like riding hatch up and watching the pavement ahead of you flex because of the weight.

You can still find footage from the initial invasion into Iraq; Old T-60's and T-72s scoring hits on Abrams, only for the smoke cloud to clear and some 105-120 odd milimeters of Fuck You to come back in as a retort.

They are a machine of awesome power

I can only imagine what magriders will be like :^)

most of the guard was made of T55s, the T72Ms Saddam had where some serious shit if they could get a side shot on you, but they lost because of crap optics.

Actually, I think there was an incident where a couple of Bradleys took out an iraqi tank column; I'd have to do some digging, though.

Oh yeah, a TOW will punch clean though a T55 like it's made of butter.

Sad

Wow.

If I recall, T-55's didn't have a sort of powered turret; Those motherfuckers had to turn a crank to turn that shit.

Dude, TOW missiles don't play around.