Mythbusting? sabot rounds and goats

[NCC1701]

so there is a persistent assertion in the armored community that if a sabot dart (penetrator, about a meter long made of depleted uranium) hits a tank and exits the other side, the entire crew gets sucked out the exit hole which is about 4 inches in diameter. There is supposedly a video of an experiment done on goats in a target tank which demonstrated this.

Plenty of folks call BS, plenty say it is true. I can't find the video or definitive answer, anybody here know?

 

[NCC1701]

neat video showing how the sabot dart is fired

 

[whitehall]

Apparently depleted uranium is about the hardest metal in the modern world and the purpose of using a depleted uranium round is to penetrate the foot or so of hardened steel in a tank or fortified object. The blast of a sabot round carrying the molten energy of a foot of steel is enough to disable a tank and crew and that's what it is intended for. Regardless of the belief system of kids who grew up with video games, simple physics will tell you that the temporary high pressure created by the sabot entering the tank isn't enough to reduce the crew to a liquid state and propel them through a freaking tiny exit hole.

 

[Silent Warrior]

Didn't that type of myth first pop up in a grade B movie from Hollywood about the development of the Bradly Fighting Vehicle?

 

[NCC1701]

Didn't that type of myth first pop up in a grade B movie from Hollywood about the development of the Bradly Fighting Vehicle?

no idea, but it is a persistent one, seem like it keeps getting repeated by some tankers themselves

 

[Vastator]

No.

 

[NCC1701]

Apparently depleted uranium is about the hardest metal in the modern world and the purpose of using a depleted uranium round is to penetrate the foot or so of hardened steel in a tank or fortified object. The blast of a sabot round carrying the molten energy of a foot of steel is enough to disable a tank and crew and that's what it is intended for. Regardless of the belief system of kids who grew up with video games, simple physics will tell you that the temporary high pressure created by the sabot entering the tank isn't enough to reduce the crew to a liquid state and propel them through a freaking tiny exit hole.

actually uranium is soft like lead, but even denser as it has higher atomic number

what happens is that the sabot dart actually liquefies and drills through as a molten spike. Density is the key, you want a denser material drilling through a less dense target. Fluid dynamics is used in the modeling.

I do not know if the physics is simple but you could be right. Stories from Iraq say that a T72 was penetrated clean through, and the crew could not be found. Were they incinerated or sucked out? I don't know