The shell that is fired from a modern tank is much smaller in diameter than a ww2 shell but is fired from a barrel that is as large or larger - and this gives it a higher velocity. KE rounds rely on pure energy (mass and velocity) to punch through armour like a bullet. So now the most effective round against modern tanks is, once again, the Kinetic Energy round, but they have come on a long way since ww2. This new armour is very effective against HEAT projectiles - but not inflable, and occasionally will be defeated if hit in certain places. Until the advent of Modern tank composite armour such as the chobham derivitive on the M1 Abrams it became the most effective anti tank round. Rpg 7 is a shaped explosive charge (High Explosive Anti Tank or HEAT) that differs in principle from a Kinetic Energy round similar to those fired by ww2 tanks.
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