delcyros
Tech Sergeant
Is that resistance in terms of any particular type of penetration? And how would it be tested?
Not exactly sure what precisely You mean here. I take it that You mean the resistence of plate to penetration at obliquity impact?
If so, the resistence was inferred by the Gnot -the necessary velocity to defeat said plate by a given projectile according to the guidelines for prooving ground trials which may be found in BIOS report 1343, item No. 2 "German Steel Armour Piercing Projectiles Theory of Penetration", dated sept. 1945, including the summeries of the minutes from the meetings of Berlin 1943 and Hillersleben 1944. -particularely, "Methods of staging and conducting trials" ,p.19-26 in said document.