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Mystery M1A1 Tank Killer
This post was also treated yesterdayAccording to an unclassified Army report, the mystery projectile punched through the vehicleâs skirt and drilled a pencil-sized hole through the hull. The hole was so small that âmy little finger will not go into it,â the reportâs author noted. The âsomethingâ continued into the crew compartment, where it passed through the gunnerâs seatback, grazed the kidney area of the gunnerâs flak jacket and finally came to rest after boring a hole 1Âœ to 2 inches deep in the hull on the far side of the tank. The mystery projectile has been revealed as a special developed Russian bullet useable with Kalasnikov riffles or Dragunov sniper guns. The Bernaul ammunition factory in Siberia/Russia produces two types of the armor penetrating bullet typed 7N22 and 7N23 (size 5.45 and 7.62) consisting of an alloy of carbon saturated Russian standards U12A steel. During tests the bullet penetrated easily 16mm of armor. Posted by: Murat 2003-11-05 |
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