Okay guys, since this is a "General" questions thread, i feel like posting this, even tought it is science fiction
I always had a huge thing for alien invasion movies. And War of the worlds (2005) is a favorite. Its a movie with flaws, but those tripods are just so fucking awesome. And the horror that they create...Brilliant
but
there is one flaw i just cannot...cannot get talk good.
Now in this movie about 2/5 down the way, Ray ferrier meets up with a TV crew after there first encounter with these tripods. The TV crew said that they were attached to a national guard unit and they said that "Shells and missiles detonate before they impact because of a shield".
Now here is a thing that puzzles me. You later see M1A1 Abrams tanks engaging these tripods with the above result. The shells detonate before they impact.
But..
How can a 120mm APSFDS Solid tungsten shell "Detonate" when it is a shell that relies on kinetic firepower and does not contain explosives? Issent this a big flaw in the movie as M1A1 abrams primarly use these APSFDS shells over HEAT rounds?