Encyclopedia > HESH

  Article Content

High explosive squash head

Redirected from HESH

High explosive squash head, also known as HESH or HEP (in US usage, for high-explosive, plastic), rounds are a type of anti-tank explosive. On impact the plastic explosive in the shell spreads out to form a disk on the surface of the armor, which is then detonated. The explosive does not penetrate the armor directly, instead the shock wave travels through the armor and causes flakes of metal to spall[?] off and fly around the interior of the tank. HESH shells will rarely actually penetrate the armour.

Developed and used only by the British, HESH was used for some time as a competitor to the more common HEAT round. In more recent times HESH has become less common.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Explorer

...   Contents List of explorersRedirected from Explorer Some great explorers (in alphabetic order by surname): Table of contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 42.5 ms