• Jay@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    after the battle, the Americans brought up various tanks and other anti-tank weapons into range and fired at them to see how much punishment they would take. It is incredible to see that virtually all the hits show shells bouncing off or merely embedding themselves into the armoured steel without penetrating it. I found only one shell hole which had penetrated the cupola straight through, whilst one other shell appears to have found a way in at the point where the moveable gun port shield slots into the turret.

    https://www.historyalive.je/2017/10/08/fort-de-la-cite-dalet-st-malo-roman-ww2-german-fortifications/

    • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Though it held up, I bet if anyone was joining in their they would be concussed into vegetation

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          You mean you don’t want to be inside the world’s thickest bell when it gets hit with a main battle cannon?

          Say it ain’t so.