It's like a modern cannonball. They say a 20kg "solid sphere" traveling at 4x the speed of sound could disable a tank by exerting forces on bolts that connect the pieces together, but otherwise leaving the tank with the appearance of being mostly unharmed.
For comparison, modern anti-tank sabot impactors are roughly 1/5th the mass (and kinetic energy) and travel at similar velocities.
So if they've shown you can bludgeon a tank rather than puncture it, I'm not sure how useful that information will be when it involves ~5x the propellant and a correspondingly bigger round/barrel/etc.
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It's like a modern cannonball. They say a 20kg "solid sphere" traveling at 4x the speed of sound could disable a tank by exerting forces on bolts that connect the pieces together, but otherwise leaving the tank with the appearance of being mostly unharmed.
For comparison, modern anti-tank sabot impactors are roughly 1/5th the mass (and kinetic energy) and travel at similar velocities.
So if they've shown you can bludgeon a tank rather than puncture it, I'm not sure how useful that information will be when it involves ~5x the propellant and a correspondingly bigger round/barrel/etc.