I doubt HEAT would create that large of an explosion. The power in those is not the amount of explosives, but that they use a shaped charge. It seems they used normal HE is this clip, but the explosion has too much fire to just be HE.
You’re confusing HEAT with HE. HEAT uses a small shape charge to break the armor fo a jet of plasma behind it to enter the tank. Neither of which create much of an incendiary effect, it’s all kinetic force. HE is just straight explosive power for unreinforced structures and anti-personnel.
Either way using the main gun at that range screams of unprofessionalism. Either there’s a legit target there that could easily be handled by the aux gun, or more likely, they’re just blowing up shit to be dicks. No tank commander of a professional military would ok that shot unless they seriously got outplayed by the Olympic Gold of RPG teams.
The M830 HEAT-MP-T, 120-mm cartridge is a direct translation of the German DM12A1 round with the exception that a United States design fuze system and explosive
I doubt HEAT would create that large of an explosion. The power in those is not the amount of explosives, but that they use a shaped charge. It seems they used normal HE is this clip, but the explosion has too much fire to just be HE.
HEAT stands for High Explosive Anti Tent round right?
These explosions match other explosions from israeli tank videos I’ve seen during their Gaza Genocide.
I recall seeing one in which a tank blew up an aid organisation building (MSF or UNRWA I think) and the explosion was as big if not bigger.
You’re confusing HEAT with HE. HEAT uses a small shape charge to break the armor fo a jet of plasma behind it to enter the tank. Neither of which create much of an incendiary effect, it’s all kinetic force. HE is just straight explosive power for unreinforced structures and anti-personnel.
Either way using the main gun at that range screams of unprofessionalism. Either there’s a legit target there that could easily be handled by the aux gun, or more likely, they’re just blowing up shit to be dicks. No tank commander of a professional military would ok that shot unless they seriously got outplayed by the Olympic Gold of RPG teams.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/09/biden-administration-emergency-authority-tank-shells-israel
The sale will be from US army inventory and consist of 120mm M830A1 MPAT tank cartridges and related equipment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M830
This video also suggests that they go boom