OA: Your biggest problem is getting the elevation right. A 34' keelboat hull isn't particularly tall, and unless the sea is quite calm the boat you're sitting in is rolling with the waves (especially if it is manoeuvring at speed!)... if you're outside the round's danger zone it only takes a minor unexpected wave at the moment of launch to send your round into the water or through the target's sail (where it is very unlikely to explode even if it works perfectly) instead of into the target's hull.
[TomB] I'm kinda surprised you need 150' stand off. I defer to your domain knowledge, but that seems like quite a bit. I guess they are a fair bit bigger than a hand grenade, but I've seen video of hand grenades going off within 5' of people and them not taking shrapnel hits (Russians in Chechnya I think). I know the RPG is bigger, but I hadn't expected that large of a lethal radius. As to the keelboat question: Depends a bit on your boat. I'd guess on the last CS30 I was aboard, and it would have been marginally ocean capable, it probably would have had a deck about 3-4 above the waterline and the top of the cabin would have been about another 4' up. So you'd have about 8' to work with and 30' in length. Of course, sail hits would be pretty marginal, except any one of them could disable the boat because a sizable tear in sailcloth combined with any sort of worthwhile wind can equal a destroyed sail in fairly short order. There's a small chance of a mast or rigging hit. Hitting a beneteau or other cover over the rear cockpit is a bit more likely and they sometimes have a bunch of metallic infrastructure that might deflect the round down I'd imagine. Still, at 200', it might be a tricky shot. You might have to shoot a fair few times. Every time I see videos of these sorts of guys, they've got 3-4 RPG rounds with them. And as someone else pointed out, the threat might be enough. As a psychological weapon, the RPG might be fairly concerning. It isn't how likely the hit is, even if each shot was only 1 in 8, if he fires 4 shots, he's going to have a decent chance of landing one and one is likely enough to cause a big problem. Of course, the small arms alone could kill your crew with some facility at 200m and a bunch of bullet holes would help neither the crew, the hull, the sails or (if they were concentrating on the rear of the boat) your diesel or the rudder. I was reading about the French raid where they dropped a flag officer (cmdr of their SF I think) into the water to put him in place to command a raid - flew him straight there, dropped him in the drink (technique the French practice) and fished him out. The french SOF are interesting - be it GIGN or the Commando Swimmers. And they seem willing enough to rumble with pirates and to do things to rescue captured French citizens. Glad to see this whole situation getting some Int'l attention and maybe some anti-piracy enforcement. T. -- "Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it." Londo, A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine Thomas Paine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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