Hi! I had a shower thought the other day and can’t seem to figure it out on my own. How does APHE work with spaced armor? And not with spaced armor like you have foe HEAT and other HE projectiles, but like add on armor like in the T-26E1-1 and such vehicles with large amounts of extra armor added on, but with space between each sheet. Like, in theory shouldn’t the shell fuse on one of those sheets of steel, instead of going through all of them and then blowing up inside the vehicle? I’m not complaining about anything, and no I didn’t have something like this happen to me, I’m just genuinely curios.
2nd question:
How do blastic capped shells work with the spaced armor? Like in theory if it’s thick enough, would the armor penetrating cap, be discarded by the time it hit the hull armor?
3rd question:
If the armor plate your hitting is too thick to be penned, why is it that the shell still shows imbedded in the armor, like shouldn’t the fuse had set it off? And if it did why is there not some sort of scorching effect on the armor or something like the effect arty has when it hits near by, kinda like shrapnel? Is this just WT, or does any of that happen IRL?