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...metal liner, the metal comes under immense pressure and acts like a thin fluid. Like a jet-propelled stream of toothpaste, the fluid metal spurts forward, at speeds up to 30,000 feet a second. The jet of liquid metal and gas can pierce more than eleven inches of armor plate. Shaped-charge shells are also equipped with rocket-like fins to give a steady flight without the spin of the standard artillery projectile...
...summer maneuvers. They are well trained, in tiptop physical condition, live as much as possible under actual field conditions, and are rigidly disciplined. They are organized into at least 20 divisions; about half of them are infantry and supporting artillery, the other half armor. The divisions are assigned to five armies, each covering, roughly, one of the five Lander (states) in the Soviet zone. Most of the armies are composed of two corps; each corps is made up of one armored and one infantry division...
This modern descendant of the horse-drawn French 75 is a cross between a gun and a rocket launcher. It is handled in the field by a small crew, can knock out a tank if it hits the treads or the relatively thin side armor. One drawback: the blast which spurts from the openings in the rear of the recoilless rifle reveals the weapon's position...
This is the most effective U.S. antitank weapon yet used in Korea. The Big Bazooka (3.5 in.) shoots an 8½-lb. rocket whose shaped charge can penetrate about eleven inches of armor; it is used mostly for close-in fighting...
...half of them the heavy, 48-ton General Patton (see cut). The arsenal last week ordered its single eight-hour shift stepped up to two ten-hour shifts, boosted its orders for air-cooled engines from Continental Motors and for transmissions from G.M.'s Allison, sought heavy armor from several steel castings firms...