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Chainmail for tanks
Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 1:07 am
by JohnWhyte
Looking at Swedish centurions and seen this a chain armoured centurion that I would like to do
Re: Chainmail for tanks
Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 11:12 am
by Rad_Schuhart
Son of a gun-ner wrote:That looks really cool, but I wonder about its effectiveness, only dangling chains against high speed projectiles, would it have enough absorbing properties to cause an armour piercing round to tumble?
Apart from that, perfect tank for rasta mouse lol.
Mick.
This is the first time I see it, but I imagine thats anti panzerfaust and panzershrek. Like the rusian bedspring armor, lol
Re: Chainmail for tanks
Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 11:53 am
by HERMAN BIX
Ive no doubt the chains would have worked, but god !...noisy !!
The 'Bedspring' armour on T34/85 tanks was initially a field mod, but I believe kits were produced and sent out to be fitted behind the lines as replacement machines rolled out.
Re: Chainmail for tanks
Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 8:56 pm
by Roboticus_Prime
Rad_Schuhart wrote:This is the first time I see it, but I imagine thats anti panzerfaust and panzershrek. Like the rusian bedspring armor, lol
This is exactly what it was for. The chains were meant to trigger the fuses of shaped charges like HEAT and HESH rounds away from the armor.