Why APFSDS generates so much shrapnel in light vehicles?

[MarcosMR 7]

I've using the BMD-4 hundreds of times and i always been killed with a single round, most of those times were due the whole crew killed by shrapnel.

The point here is that aluminium is a malleable, flexible and light metal, I don't see the point that it generates as much shrapnel as in image 2.

In ballistic simulations of penetration found in youtube a tungsten beam could easily penetrate throught a thick aluminium plate without generating shrapnell, I don't see the point of going through a 2-centimeter plate turning my crew into emmental cheese. Image 1

 

[llSolitairell@psn 5,730]

people would complain otherwise, APFSDS in general spalls way too much even against hardened plate; compromises for gameplay I guess.

[Josephs_Piano 7,044]

The damage model is FUBAR and they have to make all sorts of unrealistic compromise "features" to make most ammunition perform "reasonably".

 

IRL APFSDS would gut a light vehicle - there is much MUCH less "free space" than WT's modelling allows, so it would invariably hit something solid enough to create plenty of spalling - but all those little "bits and pieces" are not in WT's vehicles, so they have to make it spall heaps from even thin armour.. 

Edited May 15, 2023 by Josephs_Piano

[Vyprex 729]

APFSDS ammo type has projectile mass. its too normal
Good Luck & Have Fun!

Edited May 16, 2023 by Artyom_TR
Sorry , I mean Projectile mass not Explosive mass

[Josephs_Piano 7,044]

37 minutes ago, Artyom_TR said:

APFSDS ammo type has explosive mass ...

 

?? Er.....  no it don't!

[wolfwhite2 4]

Yeah, that's why HEAT or MPAT was the preferred ammo type for PCs or other lightly armored vehicles.