Who in the last few months converted to Islam? Huh? What is going on here? Were Korean Muslim soldiers chosen over non-Muslims for deployment, that is; big bucks?
Will these guys convert back to soju once they get back home?

but, later in the Global Sec quote:

An RPG projectile screen of chain link fence will completely neutralize 50 percent of the rounds and degrade the penetrating capability of the remaining rounds…”

GS doesn’t explicitly say so, but the 330 mm of armor probably refers to “rolled homogeneous steel”, the old standard for measuring the strength of armor protection on armored vehicles, prior to the development of modern composite & depleted-uranium- enhanced armor, such as is found on modern tanks & armored vehicles.

The quote “…capable of defeating all known armored vehicles..” sounds exactly like the “school solution” language we used to hear on the LAW range. It doesn’t automatically translate into any single hit, or even several, achieving a catastrophic kill, or even any penetration into the crew compartment. If the grenade hits & breaks the tread — or achieves penetration into the engine compartment (for the M1, this would have to be from a rear shot)– it can stop the advance of the tank or Bradley and thus “defeat” it. But always the vehicle can be recovered, and usually repaired readily, sometimes even without evacuation to depot level maintenance.

To achieve maximum armor penetration the hit by the shaped charge warhead has to be close to perpendicular. Any sort of obligue angle hit degrades the penetration of the molten jet considerably; also any type of material on the outside of the vehicle might cause early detonation of the warhead and early degradation of the molten jet before it enters the armor. I speculate this is part of the reason why I’ve seen some Bradleys and M113 family APC’s in Iraq with side-mounted cargo racks (such as I saw the Israelis using at one time on their M113s).

It’s not particularly fun for the crews, but I think the reason you see the M1’s and Bradleys being used so frequently with the forward forces in urban settings in Iraq is because of their ability to usually shrug off RPG hits. Precision heavy return fire from their main gun weapons, as well as the return fire from infantry in close support, is devastating to the RPG gunners and there are probably very few “both old and bold” ones over there now.

But, the idiot who posted the weird link and started things off did it in a yahoo message box for a yahoo article. Or perhaps he did in a bunch of places at the same time.