I've been doing some research on armored vehicles (for a 3D modelling assignment), specifically Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs), and I've seen that some of them has a very gentle slope for its front.
Does this in anyway affect its frontal armor's resistance to heavy machine gun rounds, artillery fragments, and assault rifle rounds? Or does it merely make it harder to aim at, since it'll be more flat?
Or is it that the more gentle the slop of the frontal armor, the more resistance to rounds fired from the ground, but the protection is diminished when fired upon from higher ground, since the full force of the round will be taken by the armor? Something like this:
http://img49.imageshack.us/my.php?image=directionofforceofbullest9.jpg
2007-04-27
07:32:19
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