China claims its new kinetic weapon makes tanks shake, rattle and roll

Chinese scientists have allegedly developed a new high-speed kinetic energy weapon that could “shake apart” a main battle tank (MBT) like the U.S. M1 Abrams, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports.

What’s more, weighing no more than 44 pounds (20 kg), the new weapon only needs a glancing blow to do so. The claim comes after the research team conducted an in-depth assessment of kinetic weapons through experiments and numerical simulations.

Tank-destroying spheres

According to the new study published on December 8 in the peer-reviewed journal Equipment Environmental Engineering, the new…