Doppeler (bzw. 4 facher) Durchschuss der Armierung eines M1 Abrams Panzers im 1. Irak-Krieg

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Kann mir jemand bitte folgende Textstelle erklären: "The beam revealed a small hole punched through the armored
side of the tank. Perfectly round, no rough edges. Superficially, I saw no signs of heat ablation or metal vitrification. He angled the flashlight. The hole went straight through the body of the tank and out the other side.
What the hell?
It was as if someone had used a supersharp cookie cutter to take a core sample of the vehicle. The energy required to do such a thing would have been enormous. The M1 tank is the crown jewel of the American field arsenal because it’s designed to take a direct hit from a missile and survive. The sides and front are the most heavily armored sections of the tank.
I knew of only one thing that could puncture the side of a tank— a sabot round, which is a little like a spear made of solid tungsten moving at hypersonic speeds. But a sabot hitting its mark would have caused the complete and utter destruction of the tank and destroyed its interior. This incident was of an eerily different order. There was no other visible damage, but this vehicle was toast, its defensive armor compromised.
The scarier part of the incident? In his excitement to show me the hole, the NCO failed to mention that the tank next to it showed precisely the same sabotage. Whatever caused this seemed to penetrate the sides of two of our best tanks with one clean hole through both."
Das Zitat stammt aus Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs (2024). Siehe auch https://magazin.spiegel.de/EpubDelivery ... f/30346775