Lets say, Hypothetically you click that suspicious link whilst navigating a bootleg Polish Pirating site website trying to torrent a 240p copy of Top Gear Series 19, alerting a nearby French char Leclerc main battle tank of your activities. Its attention has now been diverted towards the total evisceration of your computer from existence. The main battle tank shows up at your doorstep within seconds and is now surveying your computer for structural weaknesses to exploit. What do you do in this situation? Do you call 112? Do you get the Chobham composite reactive armour from the basement and prepare for the worst? Do you run away with your computer and enact the scorched earth policy? Don’t be foolish! There is no time for cocking about in this situation. Look into the abyss of those cruel, spiteful eyes. The Leclerc knows no fear. It can only see fear. It can smell your hesitation. It can hear your anxiety. It can taste the fight or flight response happening inside you, and it’s beginning to look more like flight than flight. This is the malicious face of one who demands absolutely no association with any concept of morals. To it the Geneva convention is merely the Geneva suggestion. there is no telling what it will do next. Who knows what dirty tricks it has up its sleeves. Trench Guns? Mustard gas? A vial of poison around its neck in case it gets captured? A plan to split up and massacre your army in one decisive cavalry charge. All we know is that it will stop at nothing to facilitate the faithful reunion between your computer and a seven kilogram two-stage long-rod tungsten kinetic penetrator. Indeed, this is the descendant of the emperor napoleon itself, and it will launch an offensive campaign against your computer with the speed, efficiency, and military prowess that the blitzkrieg has wet dreams about. Does this sound like someone who has mercy? Do you think it will give you a centimetre of breathing room? No. Our only hope of survival is to rely on our sharp wits to quickly survey the situation and accordingly formulate a plan. So let’s get to it.

I hope you have kept up with your main battle tanks reading because there are several critical pieces of information we should be able to identify from this menacing silhouette alone. We know the Leclerc is armed with an auto-loading 120mm model F1 GIAT CN120-26/52 smoothbore gun firing Dm43 armour piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot rounds, which can penetrate more than 560mm of rolled homogeneous armour at a range of 2000 meters, at a velocity of 1740 meters per second. Your computer on the other hand, has no armament of any kind, and its thin “armour” can only protect giants limited small arms fire at best: not a 120mm APFSDS round to the face, which is a problem.
So what if we up-armoured it? True, your computer has an armour profile that forces the perpendicular projectile impact optimal for ceramic armour, but your computer would probably punch a hole in the ground due to the weight of eight inches of steel welded to it. Also, the sheer kinetic energy of a seven kilogram tungsten projectile moving at almost two thousand meters per second impacting your computer would most likely cause it to simply cease to exist. So this is out of the question.
The Leclerc is propelled by an eight-cylinder diesel engine producing 1,500 horsepower, allowing it to reach cross-country speeds of 55 kilometres per hour, and can track your computer over a range of 650 kilometres with the use of external fuel tanks. So taking your computer and running also won’t work. You are not William Sherman. Do not attempt any scorched earth tactics. You would probably burn down your own computer in the process. Given this information, we realize that defensive tactics are impractical. We will thus take an offensive position and eliminate the enemy ourselves.

The Leclerc was designed to withstand multiple impacts by various weaponry over a sixty-degree frontal arc. Therefore as long as the Leclerc is facing you, Which it will be, in order to theoretically penetrate this armour, we must use the proper ordinances. These include the most modern interactions of the long-rod APFSDS rounds, which use a kinetic energy penetrator rod made of depleted uranium and can penetrate over seven hundred millimetres of rolled homogeneous armour, or even tandem-charge anti-tank guided missiles which detonate in two stages and can penetrate more than one thousand millimetres. Which is almost enough to get something through your thick skull. The only problem with these proposed solutions is that most people do not just leave tandem charge warheads and depleted uranium rods lying around the house. Without these necessities, those layers of composite ceramic armour plates and reactive modules make the Leclerc virtually invulnerable- unless…
We found a way to bypass them altogether.
I can already identify a weakness. Can you?

Of course!
Most modern battle tanks lack protection in the roof area. It just so happens that the Leclerc fits that exact description. The roof does not have the raw armour thickness of other more critical areas such as around the cannon breach and gunner sights. Due to its extreme slope, any shots that land there will certainly ricochet regardless of nominal thickness. Thus the roof armour of the tank is made relatively thin to save weight. This will be the Leclerc’s fatal flaw and ultimate undoing. So how do we exploit this weakness? Do we climb up there and hit it with a hammer with speed and power?
We have a more sophisticated solution up our sleeves: HESH ammunition. Unlike conventional kinetic energy penetrates High Explosive Squash Head shells rely on a malleable warhead that deforms upon impact creating a part of plastic explosive that spreads across the surface. The base fuel then detonates this part causing internal spalling across a large area. On the same slope that would cause APFSDS rounds to ricochet or shatter like its fragile ego, HESH shells will successfully detonate and cause a shockwave of destruction out of the sheer energy of how based it is in not giving a single toss about armour slope.
So how do we acquire HESH ammunition? Most people don’t just leave random tank shells lying around. Don’t worry if this is you. We will now put your baguette stash to good use.

The oblong shape, soft, sensual texture and delicate crust of a pristine baguette resembles the components of a HESH shell. All that is missing is the shell filling. If we were to somehow give out baguette explosive properties, we would have ourselves une magnifique high explosive squash head round. We will now do exactly this. Hollow out the baguette then insert a delayed action base fuse. Next fill the rest of the space with plastic explosive leaving room at the top for the inert filling cap. Then cut the baguette in two pieces to separate the shell and shell casing. For legal reasons I have to tell you not to do what I just did. But it is up to you to decide whether or not you want to follow that advice when there is a Leclerc waiting at your front door. We now have one HESH shell that is ready to fire. Since barrel rifling allows the shell to spin and disperse the plastic explosive filling over a greater area, we will retrieve the Royal Ordinance L30a1 120mm rifled gun emplacement we have conveniently stored in the basement.
Now observe as the HESH round detonates on the Leclerc and liberates our computer from harm.