• anachronist
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    1 year ago

    Answering my own question it appears to be a PTAB bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTAB_(bomb)

    I don’t understand how this video resulted in a kill though; I don’t think the turrent-top armor would be a “weak spot” that a PTAB could exploit. Maybe the issue was the open hatch?

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      1 year ago

      The open hatch almost definitely lead to the kill. You can overpressure loaded or stored shells with less than the .62kg explosive charge in the bomb. There’s a small chance though that it penetrated; T90a’s turret top armor has at most 200mm of armor, of which 90mm is steel; PTAB have been known to penetrate 90mm of steel and the rest of the armor composite does not resist HEAT rounds.