About Bullet penetration AP

[VersusJunkie54]

I've been trying to find the original calcs that specified how much penetration power handgun bullets to .50BMG's have.(I'm 90% sure it exists) But I've been unable to find it. So would someone be kind enough to link me to it?

I have other questions as well. How much penetration power would the main cannon on an M1 Abrams have? 8-B? Or 8-A is what I'd expect. Or what about the penetration energy of the US Navy's prototype railguns?

 

[VersusJunkie54]

bump

 

[VersusJunkie54]

Bump

 

[Antoniofer]

Power of penetration, if it exist, it would be measured in pressure units, something that our system doesn't work with.

 

[VersusJunkie54]

I swear that someone made a calc that estimated how much penetration they have. As in, the tier of durability the'd be able to harm.

 

[Antoniofer]

Most likely, but I generally do not support calculations that's change pressure/force units to energy ones (unless overpressure).

 

[XING06]

Yeah no we don't work with pressure but for VS matches it is something to keep in mind.

A 50 BMG bullet can go right through a 12 inch tree, which takes around 15 pounds of TNT (3.14*10^7 J) to explosively fell externally. Basically, bullets can generally punch one tier above their standard AP, not including exotic AP weapons like DU anti-tank rounds.

 

[Jasonsith]

Profiles for weapons in The Real World often have street level AP but creating much bigger AP by piercing.

Pressure equals force / area on impact. Ah energy also equals force times distance travelled with the force direction.

So given constant distance it is easy to do the damage equivalent from say a punch from a bullet strike.