There wasn't much chance of one, but all those head-on strikes against the HuK shields by the kinetic rounds must've depleted the shields a great deal.

Myriad flares like brilliant stars-plasma projectiles, white-hot kinetic rounds, and the exhausts of anti-air missiles-floated up from the shadows below to meet them.

The new vehicle, the T-62, was to be equipped with a new smoothbore design - which allows higher velocity and greater armour penetration with kinetic rounds - based on an enlargement of the 100mm 2A19 anti-tank gun that had entered production in 1955.

Most solid rounds, both high-speed projectiles and robot-directed missiles, are deflected as well, and my outer layers of armor have held up under the barrage of those explosive and kinetic rounds that do penetrate.

The kinetic round took a moment to orient itself, nosed over and dove for the planet.