84mm Carl Gustav HEAT 751 Shaped Charge tamdem warhead

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

The violence of that impact shook me up.... bloody amazing. Speaking of amazing, that ultra-high speed photography is pretty intense, too. The Swedes seem like pretty peaceful sorts, but they seem to develop high-class weapons like this one, by Saab Borfors Dynamics. The tech data say that the FFV751 HEAT round can penetrate 500mm of armor or more at 500 meters. Pretty impressive for a weapon whose first prototype was built in 1946!

[usukker]

holy fucking shit

[manke59]

Chris Kyle said it was BAD ASS. 😝

[why760nitro]

i want one santa

[HinFoo]

the first explosion was probably enough to kill/seriously wound anyone.. the second explosion is just making sure that they turn into tomato juice

[toro199999]

@HinFoo spoken like a real COD hero

[HinFoo]

@toro199999 ? havent played cod in ages

[FredDude27]

Jebus! Poor tank-crews who get caught in that blast!

[KarILsson]

I agree with the first post made by @kbiltsetskhla its not a CG round its a AT4 AST (Anti Structure Tandem-warheads). Designed for urban warfare where a projectile heavier than the HEDP AT4 is needed. Two warheads, first one a HEAT with a shallow cone resulting in less penetration but a wider hole, and a second follow through high-blast warhead. It has two settings: one for destroying bunkers and one for mouse holing a building wall for combat entry

[vanda477]

Hit a tank, get the tank personnel on thousand small holes.

[FredDude27]

Holy shitballs!

[agumon12]

well... that's gonna suck if you're inside that bunker. lol.

[GTimpact]

really awesome !!!!!

[jeuxpclol1011]

1 explosion to go though ERA and one to go through armor. If you shoot tandem on a normal tank its 1 to go through armor and one to explode inside.

[ppitm]

@jeuxpclol1011 That's not true. No HEAT weapon will every explode inside a tank, unless you hit a thin-skinned APC with a Maverick or something. The preliminary charge is too weak to penetrate armor, and only sets off the ERA. If you have a Hellfire missile, with two equally-sized charges stacked up, the second charge is still timed to explode outside the armor. The hole will always be narrower than the missile, so the missile and HEAT cone would shatter if it tried to go through.

[88Tomm88]

@ppitm Lol the thing is that they did develop this weapon for have a delay.

Nock through the armor then explode, I am not 100% sure how this work since was a long time since i did explain it.

[ppitm]

@88Tomm88 You can see how it works just by looking at the warhead. Shallow cone shaped charge in front, frag charge in back. But it's an anti-structure weapon, so it would be useless against any real thick armor. And possibly it will make a smaller hole in steel (as opposed to masonry) and not admit the secondary charge.

[Ze3g0]

@ppitm The Carl Gustav is meant to be an allrounder. It's all in the ammo. There's for example a tandemround capable of penetrating over 500mm of armour. And there's a new round that has a bit less penetration but is made to be used against reactive armour. And then there's antistructural rounds and of course the ever so effective antipersonell rounds. There's also smoke and illuminationrounds available for it.

[jeuxpclol1011]

Its a tandem warhead 2 explosions

[ffiinnrroodd]

What was that secondary explosion?

[SgtDrDeath]

Boooooooom

Thats got to hurt......

[TheCrazyFinn]

Sucks to be a tank crew... =\

[ppitm]

@TheCrazyFinn I don't think this is meant for penetrating that much armor. Sucks to be anyone in any building ever.

[TheCrazyFinn]

@ppitm HEAT in the name would suggest otherwise: High Explosive Anti-Tank.

[ppitm]

@TheCrazyFinn There are many HEAT rounds that are meant to defeat light vehicles, not MBTs. There are even 40mm HEAT rounds in use by the British army.

But I'm wondering if this video is mislabeled or if something is funny about this test. Because it clearly shows the preliminary shaped charged (HEAT) penetrating the wall, but then a secondary blast fragmentation charge going off inside the wall. This is something that no anti-tank round every does.

[ppitm]

@TheCrazyFinn And actually some commenters have stated that the rocket is actually the tandem charge anti-structure weapon from the M136.

[TheCrazyFinn]

This actually looks like MT 756 Multi Target for Carl-Gustaf M3. At least judging by the shape of the munition.

saabgroup(dot)com/en/Land/Weap­­on-Systems/support-weapons/Ca­r­l_Gustaf_M3_weapon_system/

[boomboom314159]

Now that's scary

[PixelSlayer247]

jihadis beware 0.0

[kazm1936]

CG noobs

[ppitm]

What is the source for this video?

[SgtDrDeath]

@ppitm - Could be Bofors Sweden...

[kbiltsetskhla]

I guess, this is not CG 751 HEAT. It is AT4 anti structure effect.

[ppitm]

@kbiltsetskhla Is the first (exterior) blast a shaped charge, though?