On 9 Jun 2006 at 8:48, Kurt Feltenberger wrote: > If you really want to get technical... > > Consider ricochets when the bullet impacts a surface like a wall or > street pavement; book physics would imply that the bullet would rebound > from the surface in a text book perfect angle. In reality, the bullet > will ricochet off the surface and continue travelling parallel to the > surface at a distance of between 12 and 18 inches. It doesn't usually > matter what angle the bullet hits, so long as it ricochets, this effect > is likely to occur. > > So, if you have someone crowding cover as they do in all the movies, > have the bad guy shoot at the wall or street about ten to fifteen feet > ahead of them and you'll introduce them to the real world. :-) > > Oh, for a real life example of this, read the AAR on the North > Hollywood Shootout. The LAPD SWAT team used this tactic when taking > down Matasareanu after his car was disabled.
It was also the cause of a number of US Ranger casualties in Somalia during the "Black Hawk Down" incident. Nice hard adobe walls and fire coming from the ends of the streets... -- Rupert Boleyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
