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Extra penetration power. Can penetrate through solid concrete walls and has increased bullet damage. Pro version you can see people through the walls.
They actually make bullets that can do this. I forget what they're called, but it's a .50 Cal. round that has an explosive charge and a Tungsten core. When it hits a concrete (or brick, or block) wall, it penetrates halfway through and then blows a patch about a foot in diameter out of the backside at projectile velocities. It basically turns the enemy's cover into a grenade. There's a sniper in Iraq who got 3 kills in 1 shot with these things. (Thank you, History Channel.)
I don't know about about a .50 Cal.
But there is an anti-tank weapon that I think is called a squash head.
The head of a rocket or shell is filled with plastic explosive. When it hits the tank, it molds around and is then detonated. Cause a huge chunk of steel to go whizing around inside the confined space, destroying equipment and killing men. Yet, it doesn;t penetrate the armour.
There are a number of weapon systems designed to penetrate armor. The most common is what is simply termed a "kinetic kill" weapon, such as the standard round fired by American MBTs. You have a weapon that simply fires a depleated uranium rod (seeing as it is the densest, commonly availble material available) at staggering velocity at a target and as such relies on simple kinetic energy to penetrate. The round itself isn't what does the damage however - as it is literally bits of the tank itself that do most of the work.
High-Explosive Armor Piercing weapons rely on the use of a shaped charge. When the round detonates, a small portion of the weapon is reduced to a high velocity plasma jet that literally cuts a path through intervening obstacles. HEAP is essentially the same as High-Explosive Anti-Tank rounds (HEAT) the only difference being the explosive power the projecile contains.
Finally, you have a weapon simlilar to what you describe that essentially functions as a combination of kinetic kill and HEAP round in one. Rather than reliying on velocity gained at launch like an average tank round, the weapon is generally a part of a guided missile package. The explosive payload detonates just before impact and sends the kinetic projectile through the armored target. The reason for such things is it allows for a more efficient energy distribution. A man-portable weapon has a weight limit for total amount of explosive power and a limit on total kinetic energy the weapon can impart on the projectile at firing. Weapons like the American AT-4 are a reasonble example of the limit of man-portable explosive weapons and while they CAN destroy a tank, they can only be expected to do so from certain angles of attack. Using a two stage round increases the lethality of the weapon system, and the addition of a guidance package means higher probability of steel on target.
Regardless of the effectiveness of a hybrid approach, most weapons still rely exclusively on one approach or the other. The AT-4 is a single stage HEAT round while the much more effective Javelin features a dual stage HEAT round(designed to counter reactive armor), excellent guidance package and the capacity to attack tanks from above where the armor is relatively weak (by far the thickest armor on a tank is on the front, specifically on a portion known as a glacis plate).
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