John Atkinson wrote: > > [TomB] I'm kinda surprised you need 150' stand off. I defer to your > domain 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.
"Danger zone" =|= "lethal radius". The lethal radius is the radius where you (supposedly) run a 50% or higher risk of dying, ie. the zone where the shooter wishes the target to be when the round detonates. The danger zone OTOH is the zone where you (even more supposedly) don't run *any* risk of getting hit by fragments from the round, ie. the zone where the gunner wants to be *himself* when the round detonates. And yes: RPG warheads are considerably bigger than hand grenades, and the big fragments from RPG fin assemblies etc. tend to go considerably further than (and are dangerous at considerably longer distances as) hand grenade shrapnel. FWIW this is a major problem for us at work, since certain customers of ours want to cut the arming distances of our products *waaayyy* shorter than we're able to guarantee that their gunners won't kill themselves <shudder> >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, Um, John... last time I checked 150' was less than half as far as 100m. But maybe you Americans have much bigger feet than the Imperial ones I'm used to? ;-) > > 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. Agreed (...OK, not to 100% since some of those old rounds could go off at even the merest hint of an impact <shudder>), but even the round passing through it would cause a big enough tear in the sail to allow the wind to destroy it eventually. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
