thermite verses abrams

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

Its a turbine engine, it seems to me that you wouldn't have to melt that much of it to get it to stop working.
But you would have to get close to the tank and, unlike in PR, tanks don't go places alone.

[eddie]

Yep. Tanks are often scouting outside of cities behind infantry for fire support. Tanks do go in city areas like Basrah but they often move fast, in a group/platoon and a route with infantry patrols along it.

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

It's not imossible but they would just tow the tank back and replace the engine.
Mow if you could sneak in somewhere and do it to a bunch of them .... now you really talking because they can't have that many spares there.

[The_motivator]

Sounds like someone just saw the Brainiac video.

The problem with thermite and tanks, was mentioned before... You have to get close enough to put it there. Put thermite on an RPG warhead, for example... and it won't work as a shaped charge, but instead will fling molten steel, iron, and other by-products all over the place... none in enough volume to do serious damage to the tank. Perhaps to standing infantry, but a regular fragmentation RPG round would do that as well.

Thermite is a wonderful material, but it's safe to say that it's probably been thought about, and discarded as an unlikely/improbable/minor risk by the engineers and forces that be.

[Expendable Grunt]

In WW2 they used thermite grenades to weld enemy artillery to itself, making it useless.

[Mouse]

Yer, they dont tend to say what goes in their armour, but ex-mils and scientists take good gess, which just mixtures of chemical bla bla,

Just wonderin, is the Chomban armour our whatever its called, is it very good, like do they regulary get taken out buy good quality RPG's?

[Taffy]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Just wonderin, is the Chomban armour our whatever its called, is it very good, like do they regulary get taken out buy good quality RPG's?

yes, its good. no it doesnt get taken down by an RPG.

[Skinwehr]

Yes, Thermite will disable an Abrams. It can sink a warship. The problem with it is that it burns like a flare. It isn't an explosive like some people seem to think. Basically, you'd have to have access to the tank and the tank would most likely need to be parked somewhere. Otherwise the crew could simply knock off the thermite container before it has time to comprimise the vehicle.

For sabotage, yes, thermite will ruin a tank. Even a small ammount can be used to cause debilitating damage to things like the main gun. It can be used to weld hatches shut, delaying the tank from deployment. It can be used to destroy the tracks, again delaying it's deployment.

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

No offense, but every time I see the title now I say to myself, " tirdy east tirdy tird street"

[Guerra norte]

It isn't an explosive like some people seem to think.

If you are referring to me, I never said it was an explosive, I merely stated that the combustion process is the same as a low order explosive.

An Oxidizer mixed in a close proximity to a reducer causing a feedback loop when ignited, i.e a Deflagration.

I did not state that it produces vast amounts gas as a combustion bi product that would act as a low order explosive under pressurized conditions, quite the contrary as a matter of fact.
I said that bi product was molten Iron, although finely meshed enough and with added reducer such (as previously mentioned), it could probably act in such a manner under pressurization.

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