On Nov 12, 2:36 am, "?" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ive just realized that they make 6 mm paintballs designed to be fired > from airsoft guns! Would these be legal under tank combat rules? > Airsoft guns are much smaller and cheaper, and would be easier and > more compact to install in a small turret as they are electronic..no > co2, spring fed magazines... or could be used to model a coaxial > ranging machine gun!
I tried 6mm paintballs long ago. In a hand-cocked Airsoft gun, approximately 65% break upon impact with a perpendicular hard flat target at close range. In an electric Airsoft gun, breakage rate falls below 30%. Even at small angles of incidence they bounce off. In the hands of a Master Gunner (John, Will), an 0.68 paintball cannon can be accurate beyond 50 yards. The 0.40 gun in Fred Simms Quadricycle SV003 was accurate to about 25 yards and is really only good for eyeball-to-eyeball fighting as described by Pete and Phil. Fred recorded two infantry kills with his 0.40 gun at very close range. I believe that a 6mm electric Airsoft "machine gun" would have difficulty killing infantry at the standard five foot minimimum distance specified in Rule IV.6.d. It would be useless as a coaxial ranging gun. New 6mm electric guns are much less prone to jamming and only cost about $20. http://www.toyeast.com/v3/pdtdetail.asp?pdt_id=A09000166 http://www.toyeast.com/v3/pdtdetail.asp?pdt_id=A02102961 http://www.toyeast.com/v3/pdtdetail.asp?pdt_id=A02106714 http://www.toyeast.com/v3/pdtdetail.asp?pdt_id=A02106784 http://www.toyeast.com/v3/pdtdetail.asp?pdt_id=A02106813 Perhaps new 6mm paintballs have improved. Give them a try in a Bren Carrier. It is fully tracked and should therefore be exempt from frontal hits. Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
