Got a Real-World Weapon, Armor or Tactics Question? Mk. XXV

[Clistenes]

The requirements are different though. The tungsten used in kinetic penetrators is for one use only, and the tungsten is destroyed in the process. A mace needs to be able to collide with targets all day and not shatter or deform. I still think a tungsten core with steel flanges would be more useful than a pure tungsten mace.

I think depth of penetration of a projectile depends on density only (Isaac Newton made an algorithm to calculate that...); the projectile itself may disintegrate or not depending on its resilience, and excess energy from high speed is dispersed as heat and kinetic waves that damage the target...

So a high density projectile has more chances to punch through armor, even is it disintegrates into tiny chunks while doing so...