Apologies for the click-baity thumbnail -you're not a true youtuber unless you use a red arrow at least once... Also, please suggest any other strange projectiles you want simulated

So that's why in war thunder, soviet APHE has APDS levels of angle performance... lmao

Seeing these simulations makes me wish War Thunder has some kind of Incomplete Penetration mechanic, where an APHE shell breaks through the Armor (cause spalling), but doesn’t enter the vehicle (no/reduced HE effect).

Very interesting. I know in War Thunder at least, it performs better against M4s and Pz IVs (angles in general) than rounds with equal penetration. Maybe this is why. Anyway, quite the interesting round. Thanks for doing this.

Suggestion: Shrapnel shell like "Ш-354Т" or "Ш-353". And you can also compare the first cumulative ammunition and high-explosive shells, which were very similar due to the ineffectiveness of the first.

You always make simulations of shells hitting the armor. How about a simulation of armor hitting the shell for once!?

Interesting find, never thought there was a particular shell for soviet 76.2mm with this cool shape. And strangely it performed worse than BR-350B with its blunt nose(?)

Love having notes in the videos, I don't always understand what's going one. Keep it up!

I have no idea why I find these videos so entertaining, but I really do.

Would you mind doing the 85mm BR-356A next? As mentioned below, in War Thunder, it has near identical penetration values against 30⁰ angles. It can punch through some ridiculous shots no other APHE shells in game can make. Not that War Thunder is a perfect simulator, but supposedly they do try to adhere to real ballistic data as much as possible. Would be awesome to compare the two.

That was super interesting to watch :O

Another suggestion: IS7 hull or turret against F4005 aka shitbarn's 183mm HESH round

Fascinating.

Quite an ingenious design.

Very nice, might order some of these. Will you guys be presenting this at the next show?

Recently watched a video about vapor deposition of diamond, I was wondering if it was possible to mimic such exotic materials onto a tank shell within the simulation? If not, how about firing various types of hardness crystals in tank shells and see what kind of Cthulhu madness would erupt?

There was an old and very rarely used projectile. I am not sure if you could simulate its uses. It was a variant of the animal gut cartridge. The animal gut cartridge was a way to provide civil war troops with an upgrade over the paper cartridges which doesnt work so well in the rain. Most used animal intestine dipped in shellac. The intestine was wrapped around a mould and allowed to dry. It was then carefully removed. It was filled with powder and using animal glue affixed to the base of a projectile and then dipped in shellac to provide a water proof barrier. I read in an old journal of it being experimented with on a larger scale for cannons. It was basically a scaled up minie with round grape sized shot behind the minie and a powder charge. This was contained in the hypodermis from the stomach of an animal instead of intestines. It was then given the same shellac treatment. It was supposedly 3.67 inches in diameter. So it would of been used in a 6 pound cannon. It calls for a 1.25 pound charge of black powder behind the minie and balls. The minie is supposedly 4 pounds of lead with 2 pounds of grape shot behind it. The idea was that while the crates were in transport they could get wet and would not fire when they were needed. This was looked at as an improvement but never really caught on or were ever manufactured. Supposedly they were used by the Confederate Army but I cannot say one way or the other with the documentation I own nor find any historical record. I would be interested to see how this would fair in both flight path and against armor.

Jolly good show!

For me, APHEBC is the gold tier shell that I use🥇

So that unique round can, in practice, damage in some degree, the sloped armor of a fellow t-34, right?

I wonder what it would perform like to have a BR350B that has a 15-30mm hole down the center of it.

Makes me wonder about how hollow point projectiles would work

the trick is that the skinny part gets hot from compression so when that part hits the metal it just gets even hotter and its the hottest part the most compressed part and its in the center of the mass so it expands out

When you try to order some 7.62 but misplace the decimal

what is ur software to make these simulations ?

Does the simulation take into account the explosion of the projectile or only the kinetics of the hull?

Seems like it's pretty good shell

Can you take a loot at reversed bullets? As the germans seem to have sometimes used in WW1 for some handguns? Just a normal projectile but flying the other way.

Panzer 3 radio operator in Brody: Ow a whole part of the front plate just came loose and decapitated me.

Can you model such an armor configuration that theres armor plating that has thinner outer layer with sspace between. Point is that thin plate forced the round deflect somewhat that when it hits the main plate, it already hits it in more "shallow"angle even if trajectory would be almost the same, but, round has much bigger area of it hitting the armor so energy gets dispersed/absorber on larger armor area, reducing the penetrating capability of it considerable. And im talking bout angled armor here. Perhaps 2 different simulations with same values, first with 1 armor plate, lets say 100mm, and second sim with 30mm first layer and second 70mm combined 100mm too. Just intrested bout it

What’s program do you use.

HEAT rounds VS Cage Armor? Wondering how the works cage armor able to destroy shaped charges.. is it even including the powerful tandem ATGM?

What do you use for the simulation?

真有趣，撞擊度部分幾乎沒有變形就直接整塊脫落，而且彈頭形狀還會變化，難道不是同一個種類

Great simulation. Can you do Tiger 1H vs T-34 Driver's hatch? Thanks!

I don't know if you've been asked this before, but what hardware do you use to run these simulations?

Can you do 183 mm hesh Vs t 72 with exsplosive reaktive armor

There was a concrete shell for the ISU 152 i think, that would be interesting to see.

wtf am I doing. I need to go to bed.

What is the simulation software that you use?

“Prank em’ John”

I'd like to se a sim of a APFSDS Depleted Uranium round. Is that possible? I want to see the self-sharpening characteristics I've heard about.

Plugging is cool.

Will you ever include real time speed ?

Any simulations for a 16”-18” naval round hitting ANY tank?

What about this projectiles against German tanks armor? 80 mm front of T-4 or backside 80 mm T-6.

What simulation software did you use?

"so what ammo r u shooting today" "Seven six two" "U mean 7.62x39? U shooting ak47 today?" "No, i shoot seventy six POINT two today" *proceeds to pull out this behemoth

Well, no. It wasn't specifically intended for dealing with with sloped armour at all. The reason for this shape was to limit the spread of cracking from the head to the main body of the shell (these grooves are indeed called 'localisers' in original Russian documentation), which was the primary limiter in 76mm's AP performance. Essentially a poor man's AP cap; Soviets were fully aware of the armour-piercing cap's benefits, but producing APC shells required the services of a skilled welder - which were a major bottleneck in Soviet production, leading to the introduction of the 'localisers' and other temporary measures during the war.

What and how do you make this animation ,what is the app ???

Will you do 152mm and 122mm soviet guns agains WW2 tanks? The pictures of Panther turrets that got torn apart by HE shells are quite the sight

What software are you using?

The AP version of Hesh, cool!

Do you have any historical records of this shell's performance in real life tests against either of these targets? I do have some good data on the 45mm shell at a variety of angles between 0-55°. I can suggest some ideas for a simulation we can actually verify.

What are you using for these

Hey i think it would be interesting if you tested the effectiveness of the concrete armor that a lot of WW2 tankers added to their tanks. Always wondered how it would effect penetration especially at typical long range fighting distances.

Do BR-350K next, please.

can you do the weird maus ammo?

i wonder how long it’s gonna be before we get a warthunder with these levels of projectile simulation

Why does it always look like the shells don’t penetrate the sloped armour and instead just throw the armour itself inside while the shell is being squished (I guess they should explode in such condition) or entirely deflect Ed?

what program did you use?

The aliasing is strong with this one

i have theoretical shells that i would like you to simulate; a BM42 APFSDS with a small rocket booster at its back and another one that has high explosive booster at the back that detonate on impact giving the penetrating rod an extra energy jolt through the armor

Which simulation software is used?

Now many questions i had found an answer.

That roubd I dont recodnize it particulary but that round is mostly used in tank destroyers

How do you make these animations

Could this be applied to small arms?

Which simulation software is this?

I wonder if the missile had an additional charge of explosions that would pave the direction of the core when hit 🤔

Can we see simulation off BR350B?

I read this as "Strangest Round Tank"

Interesting, the same double hit design behind tandem heat with a kinetic projectile...

for a second there i was surprised looking at a tank round using 7.62 mm cartridge but no turns out its a 76.2 mm shell😂

Maybe it was noted earlier. But from what distance is this? As in, firing distance. Thanks

What do you use to simulate these?

Why is there a nipple on the back of the projectile?

For those who don't know, RHA stands for Really Hard Armor

Some engineer was writing letters to another and accidentally wrote 76.2 instead of 7.62. Engineers are stubborn so unwilling to accept that he misspelled the word he invented a new cartridge.

I've read the title as "Strongest Round" 💀

You see Ivan when give tank shell its own shovel it will dig hole in enemy armor to reduce angle!

Could you do simulation with heat

The simulation seems to be wrong. The ballistic cap works by deforming on contact which turns the shot in towards the armour thus negating some of the sloping of the armour giving better penetration. A solid shell is more likely to glance off sloped armour but as I say, the cap deformation causes the round to literally steer into the armour. Not by much but its enough to give more of a chance of a penetration than a glancing blow. The simulation doesn't appear to take the cap deformation into account when calculating the trajectory of the shot milli-seconds after impact.

Is that not a base-detonating fuse on it? It didn't detonate.

Where i can download this

20mm, 25mm, 30mm, 35mm, and 40mm APs from current autocannons. Any chance?

You already know at least some of the unique ones I'd like to see done, which reminds me, I need to get that information to you on a certain one.. I'm honestly just waiting for the eventual US HVAP sims, and other nations APCR's. I actually would be interested in seeing a sim comparing M728/L52A2 to M392A2/L28A1/DM13, say at vertical, and then against NATO Single Medium plate.. The biggest appearance difference would be the conical nose on the tungsten carbide core compared to the rounded on on the tungsten alloy core. That one could show the key differences between how the Carbide and Alloy cores penetrate steel. As far as earlier Gen APDS, maybe a sim for T137 for the 90mm Gun, I have dimensional diagrams for that. I'd like to see 90mm T320, but no idea how you'd find material details for Titanium Carbide part of the body. And if I can find it again, I have one with dimensions for 76mm M331 APDS from the M32 gun of the Walker Bulldog. Perhaps that could be compared to 17lber apds Mk1 or 2. When it comes to more US shells, I'm gonna see if I can get a certain manual with the metal parts diagrams through interlibrary loan here eventually. Should help a lot with getting exact dimensions for each piece, which is important for the HVAP cores..

How about 40mm anti tank round fired from an S - gun into the hull or turret of a German MKIII tank as in the Western Desert campaign?

How do you do this

BR-412B: "fuck you target"

76mm sh-353/354t please. pretty sure that is the weirdest shell ive seen.

What simulator do you use? - any download links?

The meshing was a bit biased towards this result. You can see the later knocked out button in the cross section before the shell impacted.

Can you simulate a brick hitting 2mm aluminum

БР-350А - это каморный снаряд, то есть со взрывчаткой внутри. Взрыватель активируется после того как снаряд пробьет некоторое количество брони/или не пробьёт и снаряд взрывается подобно гранате. В ролике показано будто это просто болванка без взрывчатки (БР-350СП)

So, no need to penetrate then: spalling effect does what the shell doesn't

Yet lrp(long rod penetrator) continues to be the most fired tank round for anti armor purposes.

Wouldn’t this technically be considered a capped shell? So APHECBC?

why does temperature increase significantly when the impact occurs?

Always interesting, but why in 2 cases the shell was disintegrating in flight??