On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Tom B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Get it off angle and it'll reflect off it does not detonate.
They are moving reasonably fast. They might simply stick into the hull and wouldn't that be fun for the EOD tech? >> Not to mention the possibility of killing crewmen. > > [Tomb] That fit under my definition of challenging sailing. :0) Without a necromancer on board. >> Don't go sailing around the Horn of Africa without an anti-piracy PLAN > that is more than "hope they don't board my boat". > > [Tomb] Honestly, sailing around some of those regions (Gulf of Aden, Panama, > Asia Pacific Rim, etc) in a small but valuable keelboat or catamaran is > basically throwing the dice. There's no way, even if there are 4 - 6 of you > aboard and you do have firearms that you can reasonably stand off launches > with support weapons and RPGs. So, I can't really think of a "plan" that's > going to change that reality. You can mitigate risk of being noticed and > targeted, you can take some steps to offer limited defense portside or at > anchor or underway, but ultimately, you aren't in the kind of vessel and > don't have the kind of armaments to effectively resist. My answer is 'don't > go there'. Personally, yeah, I don't see a reasonable plan that doesn't involve naval escort. At a certain point in your planning process you pretty much have to say, "This is a bad idea. Let's sail the Aegean instead." John -- "Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again and again. We're looking for thousands of Persians." --Vita Aureliani _______________________________________________ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
