HE-filling

[the_emperor]

since the later soviet 20mm got corrected from 2.8. to 5.6g of HE filling, I would like to bring up the filling of all 20mm HE-rounds in general.

the game seems to use TNT equivalent for calculation:

(credit to @=MERCS=JenkemJunkie

 

The values are:

5.6g TNT for the later soviet

11.3g TNT for the allied Hispano System

20g TNT for the german Mineshell

 

since all rounds hold explosives that is more effective than pure TNT, the correct values of TNT equivalent should probably be:

 

British/US:

5.6g Tetryl R.E. factor 1.25 ~7g TNT 

 

(Later) Soviet:

5.6g A-IX-2 (73% RDX, 23% aluminum powder, phlegmatized with 4% wax; R.E. factor 1.54)~8,624g TNT

or 4.13g (~6.36g TNT)  for the tracer version

 earlier soviet HE-I rounds held about 2,8g of tetryl (~3.5g TNT) or 2.64g A-IX-2 (~4.07g TNT)

 

German:

18,6g HA41 (75% RDX, 20% aluminum powder, phlegmatized with 5% wax; R.E. factor ~1.5)~28g TNT

Edited April 18, 2024 by the_emperor