"Today [Monday], Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers have made their first sortie equipped not only with high explosive aviation bombs and
hollow charge bombs, but also with short- and medium-range air-to-air missiles," said Igor Klimov, aAaAaAeAeAaAeAeA spokesman for the Russian Air Force,AaAaAeAeAaAeAeA a to (https://www.rt.com/news/323992-russia-syria-air-missile/) RT.com .
What is more certain, however, is that the detonation of a
hollow charge against an armour plate will definitely generate a consistent dispersion of debris outside the vehicle as well, especially when ceramic armour is involved.
Once Student confirmed that it was possible to land gliders on such a small landing zone, Hitler revealed the other component that would ensure the downfall of the Belgian fort, a new development in explosives called the Hohlladung or
hollow charge. The
hollow charge is a specialized military explosive where the charge has been hollowed out in a conical shape and lined with sheet metal.
The weapon features a two-stage warhead, the first being a
hollow charge with a 106 mm diameter (the warhead calibre being 110 mm) with a piezoelectric impact fuse to ensure penetration.
According to official Israeli reports, 50 Merkava tanks had been hit by missiles or rocket-propelled grenades, and three tanks out of the 22 that were penetrated by
hollow charge jets were destroyed and 18 crew members had lost their lives.
And more is to come, like cutting up a 61-centimetre diameter hole in a concrete wall by using a ring-shaped
hollow charge.
For example, Ruag has managed to develop an asymmetrical
hollow charge that allows the impact of the downwards-fired dart to remain over the same single spot on the attacked armour in spite of the forward movement of the horizontally moving warhead.
Unlike the tandem
hollow charge follow-through grenade design of the Bunkerfaust, this round will penetrate cleanly into 25 cm of sollid concrete to explode inside the building.
To make a hole in a thick piece of concrete with a
hollow charge is one thing, but to entirely disable what might be on the other side is another.
The Kovrov Mechanical Plant offers three warhead upgrades for the Phalanga: an improved
hollow charge, a blast device and an anti-personnel HE/fragmentation warhead.