Since my son is currently
In Iraq and is an EOD Class A disarm Agent. (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) Here is what they are up against. When our troops ran over the Iraqi army in the first days of the war the commanders failed to secure or destroy most of the ammunition dumps that were taken. As we moved on with unsecured ammo dumps the insurgents went in and removed thousands of tons of high explosives mostly in the form of artillery shells. The Iraqi army used a South African model of artillery in 155mm with a shell weighing around 250 lbs. Several of these shells are daisy chained together along side or under a road and are command detonated by a cell phone. or other device. The Car bombs are filled with 3 or 4 of these shells and a van or light truck may carry as much as 2,000 or more lbs. DEADLY. My sons EOD team is currently disarming between 5 and 7 or more of these devices a day.
Your Tanker buddy knows not of what he speaks, A Tank Sabot round is simply a heavy metal rod (depleted uranium or similar) that is about 3/4 of an inch in diameter with a base. It penetrates the armor and sends a spalling charge of molten metal all through the tank incinerating everthing inside.
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