On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Oerjan Ariander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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> "Gosh, I thought it was a directional explosion. . . " Something like that? Hehehe. . . Of course, Third Worlders are notoriously cavalier about such things--I believe the cultural concept is denoted by "Inshallah". Inshallah, I will kill the Americans. Inshallah, I will blow myself up. Inshallah, the RPG will be a dud, but I will go to the hashish bar and brag about how manly I am for firing an RPG at the Americans. >>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? ;-) Feet. . . right. Feet. Excuse me while I go flagellate myself. I'm used to thinking in meters so much that my eye glossed right over the little '. I just assumed that a European would be using meters. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
