TomB wrote: > > A fiberglass hull may or may not detonate the pizeoelectric fuze. > >[Tomb] It may also bounce and rpg if it doesn't detonate. Those hulls are >tougher than most folks think. You'd need a heck of a lot of energy >applied at a pretty orthogonal angle to punch through with a dud of >several inches diameter.
An RPG round weighing several pounds arriving with a velocity of 2-300 m/s has quite a bit of kinetic energy to apply, and all of it concentrated at the point of the nose which is usually less than an inch across... and once the point breaks through, it takes far less energy to widen the hole than it would to create an instant several-inches wide breach. >Get it off angle and it'll reflect off it does not detonate. Don't bet too much on that. Several types of RPG rounds - I'd expect all of them, but don't know that for certain - are equipped with a biting edge to ensure that they don't glance off even if they hit at quite acute angles... and while those biting edges are there to increase the chances that the round will detonate successfully, they also greatly improve the rounds' chances of smashing through thin obstacles if they fail to detonate properly. >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). > >[Tomb] True enough. But if I can match your course at a distance of 15' >in a motor launch ...you'd better pray that you are inside the round's arming distance so it won't detonate (or that it is a dud, giving the same result), because if it does go off you'll get killed yourself when the round's rocket booster, fin assembly and all other parts located behind the warhead come back at high speed and hit you in the face. Regards, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
