At 10:53 PM 3/24/03 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >I seem to recall that with sufficient knowledge and commonly available >detonators shaped explosive charges can be configured to hurl heavy >explosive payloads, much like a mortar, with fair accuracy, great distance >or very high velocity. I can't seem to find the reference on-line but I >vaguely recall that a 50kg payload could be accelerated to multi-mach >speeds with a device that could be placed in a car trunk. A poor man's
>howitzer. A shaped charge would probably destroy any projectile other than the collapsed liner. Which does move very fast -faster even than the detonation velocity of the brisant, which can be a few thousand m/sec. Nothing like a hypersonic slug of molten tungsten to start the day. However, see _The Irish War_ for a few practical, tested homebrew mortars you can fire out of a van. Moonroofs are terrorist equiptment.
