Think of the Trees!

Zulus used to think that rubbing piss and bonfire ash on their tits made
them immune to bullets.

 

WTF is going to do all the real work then

 

Children.

 

does a degree in art history contribute to financial wealth? Without a
bunch of Oxbridge pseuds pontificating about brushstrokes and "potent
symbols of humanity" the likes of "L'Homme qui marche I" wouldn't be making
£65 million at Sotheby's London branch. Worldwide, their turnover is just
short of $3 billion and a significant lump of that will go to the UK
Exchequer in the form of VAT & PAYE deductions, plus the trickle down
effect of the UK employees take home pay.

Is the job of an art historian, who adds value to otherwise worthless junk
by labelling it "creative", any different to say Cane, who takes a few
lumps of plastic, arranges them in a particular way so that they grab
someone's attention?

 

You. Coat. Now.

 

I'm in favour of the sales.

It might avoid the need for some cuts.

 

I doubt it. Most of the money raised will go in fees to stockbrokers and
the rest in redundancy payments.

Doesn't Eton Boy come from a family of stockbrokers?

 

Dunno. Dunno what branch of physics can force "several kilos of
explosive" into something "the size of a baked bean can" either.

As to disabling a main battle tank, does the term "Chobham" mean
anything to the OP, d'you think?

 

<admires lack of curvature in own implement[fnar]>
Very little HE is required TBF, you may find this interesting:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/bullets2-shaped-charge.htm

http://warfare.ru/?linkid=2490&catid=339

Dorchester is the present flavour, and again TBF, it ain't got none on
the belly/suspension area.

 

The baked bean can is the Yank air drop cluster ****.

The several kilos is your low tech and somewhat cheaper raghead equivalent.

 

Yeah the active armour system is on the sides I think, calculated to deal
with higher tech "incoming". Those tend not to be large charges??
Yer average Amjad is content with a few kilos of local brew in a nicely
shaped charge buried in the road. Probably good enough to go through the
torpedo belt of a WW1 battle ship.
I think that once you get up to those quantities of explosive nothing
remotely mobile can expect to get away unscathed, unless it is sporting
chain flails.

 

Frontal arc(s) + some other. BTW 'active' Armour is ERA type(and
electric), ... and province of after-market wannabe MBT's
<removes tongue from cheek>
Rumour has it that some warheads now contain 3 shaped charges, but as
you say, not a huge amount of explosive.

Have a go ogle for Trophy from Israel and Quick Kill from(eventually)
the US. Nether of which, of course, are any use against IED's/Mines.

 

I'll leave all of that up to Bee.
It isn't the sort of pillow talk you can get anywhere else ;o)