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Original Post Date: 2003-11-20 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 11/20/2003 2:55:52 PM
Mystery Tank-Killer Size Of Pencil Eraser Still Unknown
WASHINGTON — Army munitions experts at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Mich., are investigating a mysterious new weapon that fires a projectile the size of a pencil eraser that was used by Iraqi insurgents to knock out an M1 Abrams main battle tank in Baghdad.
The yellow metal round penetrated the tank’s armored skirting and hull, tore through a gunner’s seat back and flak jacket and then took out vital equipment, disabling the tank before burying itself in the opposite wall in a hole nearly two inches deep.
The four-member crew of the 69-ton, $4.3 million Abrams survived the hit, although the gunner and the tank commander were hit by flying bits of metal.
According to Don Jarosz, spokesman for the Army’s Program Evaluation Office for Ground Combat Systems, the incident happened Aug. 28, while the tank was on patrol in Baghdad.
The investigation into what weapon was used in the attack is not yet complete, he said.
Only one other Abrams tank has been disabled by enemy fire since the U.S.-led war in Iraq began last March, and that incident involved an ordinary rocket-propelled grenade.
There have been no reports of any other mystery projectile being fired at U.S. equipment before or since the Aug. 28 incident, but there are fears that Iraqi insurgents may possess some kind of secret weapon.
The Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command, which is conducting the investigation, is withholding all information concerning it, including what progress has been made, Jarosz said.
However, in unclassified excerpts of a preliminary report published in the Army Times newspaper, Rock Island (Ill.) Arsenal technical representative Terry Hughes described the munition as made of yellow metal.
“It seems clear that a penetrator of a yellow molten metal is what caused the damage,” he wrote after examining the tank in Baghdad, “but what weapon fires such a round and precisely what sort of round is it?”
A hollow-charge penetrator round works by melting the metal it strikes and pushing a stream of molten metal ahead of it as it passes through armor plating.
According to the Army Times excerpts, the round struck a vulnerable spot in the Abrams body structure between the top of the tread and the base of the turret.
Current-day Abrams tanks carry armor made of steel casing filled with depleted uranium, which has more than twice the strength of steel.
By Michael Kilian
Washington Bureau
Chicago Tribune
11-20-3
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