John Atkinson wrote: >A fiberglass hull may or may not detonate the pizeoelectric fuze.
Agreed. Depends on far too many factors to say anything for certain... but the risk that it would go off as intended is certainly big enough that I wouldn't want to risk being hit by it. > >HEAP or the like might just punch a small hole through the boat. But then, > >what might it hit on the way? Propane tank? Gas tank? Diesel tank? Various > >other critical pieces? Batteries? etc. It would be less serious, but could > >still leave you shipping water. > >My concern on a fiberglass hulled vessel would be the probability that >the jet of copper would be at some really silly temperature (I'm sure >OA could give a precise reading) that would tend to ignite the boat. Not >to mention unused rocket fuel, etc. The jet temperature is fairly low; usually around 600 degrees centigrade or thereabouts - the metal is actually solid, but under such extreme pressure that it behaves roughly as if it were a fluid. Remaining rocket fuel (if any; most RPG rocket boosters burn out at fairly short ranges) and especially the blast from the warhead are far more likely to start fires than the copper jet is. >RPG accuracy and precision is not all that great, they are intended to >hit slow-moving armored targets at close range from a stationary >platform (ie, the ground). Yeah. It'll be a fair bit trickier to hit a boat with an RPG than hitting with a combat rifle due to the low velocity of RPG rounds. >However, as has been demonstrated, fire >enough of them at almost anything, and you can hit a helicopter. I >doubt a sailboat is going to be more difficult to hit than a >Blackhawk. Most of those helicopters (including those in Mogadishu) weren't hit directly though, but instead caught in the blast by self-destructing RPG-7 rounds. The factory-set self-destruct range of RPG-7 rounds is 920 meters, but it isn't that hard to reduce it... if you don't mind risking blowing your hands off, that is :-/ Later, Oerjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it." -Hen3ry _______________________________________________ Gzg-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ground Zero Games" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gzg-group?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
