I was asking as i was thinking about a hand held 80mm automatic vs MBT's

Greece uses them as well

Yeah... 80mm rockets?

or grenades

Mech gun

We have 1A1 lepards

point still stands

39 operational 1A1s and 216 operational 1A5s

I mean repeatedly smashing a fuckload of 80mm HESH in to a tank is going to fuck it

26 operational M60 Pattons

But at that rate you might as well just get a 155mm

https://www.facebook.com/notkao/videos/1978730125482207/

intermediately sub-MBT calibre

Literally just get an Abrams hull, casemate a 155mm autoloader, make it a TD.

I was thinking polymer HESH rounds that super deform onto the armour before detonation

@Inazuma

Might as well go for thermite rounds then

thats kinda hot

OwO

Smoosh thermite on to the hull and let it burn a hole through

i like the cyberpunk future retro feel

The idea is that the Polymer-HESH wraps around the tank

Make it HESH-TI

so you can slip it into even tighter corners

But

Can it hug you

🤔

like right under turrets and cupolas

layer of thermite on top of the HE, gets blasted in to the armor before igniting

Then the armor itself becomes molten

Making follow up shots more effective on the location

Most metals lose something like 60% of their strength at maybe 70% of their melting temp

Poor

what about cost

also I'm giving MBT's bullshit magic ceramic armour

thermite will burn through literally everything

And even if it doesn't it's going to be putty

Because of how fucking hot it is

Well yeah

IIRC there's a theoretical metal alloy that can withstand something like 2500*C