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special ammunition
RepoRipper:
good idea, for aliensRL.
the explosive shells fire just like a normal shotgun shell, they spread out. but each piece, when introduced to a breathable atmosphere, is catalyzed, which makes it impact-sensitive. the spread hits, BOOM, explosion.
okay, got it, punching the cyber isnt suicide.
TFoN:
--- Quote from: RepoRipper on March 24, 2007, 13:42 ---the explosive shells fire just like a normal shotgun shell, they spread out. but each piece, when introduced to a breathable atmosphere, is catalyzed, which makes it impact-sensitive. the spread hits, BOOM, explosion.
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Are you telling me that the slightest crack in the insulation of a single pellet makes a bundle of ammo the equivalent of carrying nitroglycerin by the kilo?! I hardly find that worth the while...
If anything, I'd make the explosives sensitive to acceleration, but I'm really not "in the know" on these matters, and have no real idea if this is possible.
RepoRipper:
ummm no if there was a crack it would go off in the factory! duhhhhh....
the peices are made up of a chemical that, when introduced to oxygen/ normal atmosphere, rapidly reacts to become highly shock sensitive. it cant go off on its own, the only way the cartridge can be broken is from the inside, via the firing charge, which has to be struck by the trigger. if the cartridge is misformed, then it will go off in a test chamber, in the factory. also the firing charge isnt thermal, so if one goes off, it wont matter. (other than sending the rest of the shells flying a few feet)
TFoN:
I'm not talking about manufacture imperfections, I'm talking about damage caused by field activity (although it could certainly be a blend of the two, where an imperfect case is breached by relatively light field activity, preventing early detection of the flaw by a system ment to not detonate every single pellet just to make sure that "it would have made it later" or damage it to the point that "it could have, but can't now that we've checked").
--- Quote ---also the firing charge isnt thermal, so if one goes off, it wont matter. (other than sending the rest of the shells flying a few feet)
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If this is the same explosive which should be able to breach its own casing - then won't it cause just the kind of insulation damage I'm talking about? In that case, sending them flying a few feet's exactly the problem, as any such flight ends with concussion - and that's after the serious concussion which sent them flying in the first place, after breaching the casing and exposing it to the atmosphere. Moreover, any blast capable of sending a soldier's ammo flying's already a serious risk to the soldier, even if it doesn't cause the rest of his ammo to go off.
--- Quote ---the only way the cartridge can be broken is from the inside, via the firing charge, which has to be struck by the trigger
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First, it has to either be struck by the trigger *or by something of [mostly] equal force*, like the force created by that cracked single pellet.
Second, how do you intend to design the cartridge so that it can *only* be borken from the inside, and not by other exploding materials (as the potentially fired type) or by some sort of external hazard, like an aimed (or stray) bullet...?
Psion:
I'd just stick with those armor piercing frangible rounds they invented recently (I forget what their actual name is). The way the bullets are designed they get somehow pierce through armor like your typical AP bullets but burst inside the target doing more damage.
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