Krakatoa.

[California Tanker]

This video is surprising. It's about a new kind of EFP, from a series called 'Futureweapons' which airs in the US, hosted by an extremely irritating former Navy SEAL, rabbiting on about the latest advances in weapons technology.



After the first four minutes, you may be wondering why I posted it in the Naval Section. Keep watching. I was very surprised.

NTM

[The Blue Max]

I enjoyed that, Its nice to see good PR work like that being done for the Navy.

Thank Cali

[strummer]

...from a series called 'Futureweapons' which airs in the US, hosted by an extremely irritating former Navy SEAL, rabbiting on about the latest advances in weapons...

I can't watch this show because of this host. I can't quite finger what it is that makes him so annoying, but he seems to have that effect on a lot of people !!!


Later.

[California Tanker]

I can't watch this show because of this host. I can't quite finger what it is that makes him so annoying, but he seems to have that effect on a lot of people !!!


Later.

The guy on GI factory was almost as bad.

Good to see Peter Snow doing shows for Military Channel though.

NTM

[Goldie fish]

I'm sure the US navy were impressed, thinking....Isn't that the boat that was "protecting" us last time we were in Cob-h?

[The Sultan]

Cool video. Pity they hadn't put a net underwater to catch the metal - Or would the shockwave of the explosion through the water have broken it? I'll direct that one at Yellowjacket.

[Goldie fish]

The part of the bay they carried that out in is extremely deep. VLCCs can manouver with ease there. Also the currents are very strong. If they could find it, it would be difficult to decide where to look.

[yooklid]

I can't watch this show because of this host. I can't quite finger what it is that makes him so annoying, but he seems to have that effect on a lot of people !!!


Later.

My buddy knows him. I'll ask him what he's "really" like.

[ZULU]

Real E.F.P.: Pocket-Sized Tank Killer

Defensetech did a few stories on these for the past few weeks. Apparently being used in iraq in crude form

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003285.html

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003281.html

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003276.html

[yooklid]

Ok.

Conversation went like this

Me: "So you know your friend that's on the TV show?"

My Friend: "Which one?"

Me: "The navy dude who does the thing"

My Friend: "You'll need to elaborate"

Me: "The guy, the one you know!"

My Friend: "uh.....'

Me: "The one everyone thinks is an asshole! The guy on Future Weapons!"

My Friend "Oh... I don't know that guy, I know Hunter Ellis. He did Tactical to Practical. That other guy on Future Weapons is a real Gobshite!*"

* My friend has been picking up on my vocabulary.

[Bosco]

Ive no sound on my PC but it seems like an evolution of the shaped charge.
Is it some sort of a thermite mix?

[ZULU]

Very basicly its a concave metal plate with a an explosive charge behind it. When the charge goes off, the pressure forces the centre of the concave to snap through. the rest of the plate then "forms" (behind the faster moving centre.) as a shaped projectile.

[mutter nutter]

ok, that's neat, is it in service with the NS?

[Aidan]

Wasn't there an artillery shell (SADARM?) that had an EFP penetrator in the early 1990s? Not sure if it ever entered service though.

[California Tanker]

Yes.

CBU-97/CBU-105 are cluster munitions which use the same sensor-fuzed technology. SADARM M895 rounds have also entered limited service.

NTM