08-18-2016, 01:34 AM
(08-18-2016, 01:29 AM)Dipdoo Wrote:(08-18-2016, 01:16 AM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote: -george tekei going bananas with a fencing blade-
something tells me I should watch Star Trek, not the movies but the old series
but will the same applied to modern armor(MBT/LT/power armor), especially one that proven to be difficult to be penetrated even with APFSDS,
In terms of angles and piercing yeah, just to an extreme degree, that and there's always some sort of weaker joint in the armor, otherwise the wearer would be completely immobile and encased in a 'METAL BAWKS.'
Raw force from a blunt object could still mangle someone inside power armor, especially if the inside of the armor lacks padding, that force has to be transferred somewhere. But at some point you'd need some hyper-dense material with much more mass than you'd expect in the 'brick' of a hammer-head, and either the strongest guy ever or a machine to swing it hard enough to seriously dent power armor.
It's all about mass and speed, thicker/tougher armor just needs a bigger and/or faster 'bullet' to get through, that and angles, a glancing blow has little hope of accomplishing anything.
what about some modern adaptation to made the above more effective like shaped charged head or rocket boosters?