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RepoRipper:
actually it does. they have a minigun, a pulse rifle, a shotgun, a magnum, the Shredder isn't far off. its sorta a cross between an SMG and an Assault Shotgun.

Blade:

--- Quote from: RepoRipper on July 01, 2008, 16:02 ---4. i dont care how heavy your armor is, you cant take a DIRECT HIT from an RPG and come out "UNHURT"!!! which happpend 75% of the time!!!! a freaking TANK cant take an rpg unscathed, a freaking alien is NOT as heavily armored as a TANK...

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You can think of it as about RPG that uses antipersonnel fragmentation grenades. They don't have much piercing ability.)

RepoRipper:
Blade. if you are a tank and you get hit by anything explosive propelled by a rocket, your going to take noticiable damage from a direct hit. period. "piercing ability" has nothing to do with it.

Blade:
I'm not an expert, but I can say that certain types of tank armour protects almost fully from certain types of explosives. Also, OG-7V is not a rocket-propelled grenade.

But, well, that's not the point. I agree, RPG really should penetrate aliens armour.

bfg9001:

--- Quote from: RepoRipper on July 03, 2008, 05:26 ---Blade. if you are a tank and you get hit by anything explosive propelled by a rocket, your going to take noticiable damage from a direct hit. period. "piercing ability" has nothing to do with it.

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Not necessarily. Piercing ability has a lot to do with it. Trying to take on a modern tank with a WWII era bazooka or rocket-launcher or something would be very ineffective because the tanks they were trying to take down had thinner, not as complex armor and thus, the need for a more powerful projectile wasn't required.

A modern RPG or other anti-tank weapon defeats armor not simply by exploding, but rather by focusing all of its explosive energy into a single "jet" (or stream) that will penetrate the armor, heat up the inside of the vehicle, and kill the crew inside by the heat alone or by detonating the munitions inside.

Hope that helped.

EDIT: And this is probably a minor point, but the idea of a "bullet" shotgun seems rather unrealistic. The firing mechanism would be insanely complicated (firing 10 or so individual bullets at the same time? not likely), the weapon would be very heavy, and ejecting the spent casings would be a problem.

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