[rescue] The fat lady. . .

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patrick at zill.net writes:

>Excuse me for being a nitpicking jerk, but pretty much any ammo other
>than .22LR that comes out of a rifle barrel IS armor-piercing.  

>The higher velocity of the bullet vs. the velocity of a bullet coming
>out of a handgun is what makes it armor-piercing.

>There is Class 3 and 4 armor, that can even stop rounds fired from an
>AK47, but it is not common, expensive, and you can barely move when
>you have it on, IIRC.

I used to work with a guy who was in the US army as a tank driver.
(Late 80s, on the border with East Germany.) He said that if the
armor of their tank was ever damaged, such that you could see the
inner layers, they were under strict orders not to look at it.

Many layers of various types of unobtanium, apparently.

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