BCS wrote:
Hello Andrei,
One that I do think would be more lethal is the mounted Gatling M134
(that Terminator made famous), see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minigun. That fires up to 6000
rounds/minute which is pretty crazy. I think a salvo of that would
have made a trench through the Orcs, the same bullet killing or
maiming several of them.
IIRC the 7.62 NATO doesn't have that much penetration (more than the
5.56), enough to do in an Orc, but I don't think it would get the next
in line, particularly if the Orc in question has armor on his back.
Not enough penetration to do in an Orc? I haven't read the book, but the
movie suggested Orcs were rather penetrable by the arrows and swords of
the humans.
BTW, machine guns do have some impressive penetration. I had to learn
the numbers while I was in the military by forgot them. My basic
recollection is that the numbers rendered pretty much all improvised
cover (wood, brick, thin steel sheet) useless. In a demonstration, a
skilled shooter emptied an AKM clip into a car from 25m. It looked very
bad afterwards; the trick was that he knew how to sweep such that many
bullets hit the car at an angle.
Andrei
