EFP.

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Here is everything you always wanted to know about the latest jihadi/insurgent/guerrilla/terrorist weapon being used in Iraq.

The explosively form projectile [penetrator].

[is about the same size as a can of paint??!!]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator

http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Dec04/MN0407.html

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/bullets2-shaped-charge.htm

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=1267763

"these particular shaped charges — which were pioneered by the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group — are constructed from a six-to-nine-inch steel pipe filled with explosives. One end of the pipe is sealed, and a curved copper or steel plate is fitted to the other end, forming a weapon that amounts to a giant bullet."

. . .

"The force from the explosives can send the projectile more than a mile per second, penetrating armor up to four inches thick at a range of more than 100 yards."

Often described as a copper slug of liquid metal about the size of your fist.

But not to be confused with the conventional and well-know shaped charge. Similar to, but not the same.

"Difference from conventional shaped charges"

"A conventional shaped charge has a generally conical metal liner that projects a hypervelocity jet of metal able to penetrate to great depths of into even armor steel"

An EFP . . . has a liner in the shape of a shallow dish. On detonating the explosive, the liner is transformed into a projected compact body of metal"



Clear to everyone? NOT exactly to me. A jet is more or less gaseous? Slug is compact liquid metal, not gaseous?

coolbert.