On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Tom B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [TomB] I'm kinda surprised you need 150' stand off. I defer to your domain You don't--and are exceedingly unlikely to hit ANYTHING at that range. At least, from what I've seen. Most of the time RPGs are fired under 100m, or they are used for harassing fire because between the limits of the shooters and the limits of the weapon, you won't hit any moving targets. As a matter of fact, the US Army did a study once that gave it a 51% chance of hitting a target at 200m that was moving at 9mph in a straight line. On a firing range while no one was shooting back and you could take your time to aim. > 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, Yeah, but the 'up and down' on the firing platform could induce pretty sizeable errors, while only the cross-winds and relative speeds of the boats induce a margin of error front and back. > 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 Well, the sail would definitely not detonate the warhead. > 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. Or detonate it. And I bet the frag off of the OG-7 would penetrate, never mind the PG-7 warhead. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
