Re: DS: SAW versus APSW versus RFAC

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:41:09 -0600 tom411@JUNO.COM (Thomas E Hughes)
writes:
>
>On Sun, 08 Mar 1998 20:34:06 +0000 Brian Bell <brian.bell@axom.com> 
>writes:
>
>>
>>I was thinking that most infantry "machine gun" type weapons of the
>>future designed for infantry suppression would be a flechette type
>>weapon. I imagined that it would fire high density plastic or ceramic
>>"needles" projected at hypersonic speeds.
>>
>>This would require a vastly increased fire rate, but much lighter 
>ammo
>>if the needles are fired individually (one per barrel). This weapon
>>could even have hundreds of barrels set in a standard dispersion 
>>pattern
>>(or have an adjustable spread).
>>
>>Or could use a lower fire rate and the same weight if they are fired 
>in
>>a submunition fashion (one shell produces x number of needles). With
>>this type of ammo, you could probably set up a deadly boobytrap.
>>
>>If the needles are sharp enough and the speeds high enough, they 
>>should
>>be able to penetrate light (read anything less than level 1 vehicle)
>>armor.
>>
>>--
>
>The only problem with needles are the fact that  I have heard that 
>they don't go where they are intended. Needles or fletchettes tend to 
>wander, if you are firing them into brush it is absolutely wild. A 
>single leaf can deflect a needle. A slight breeze ( invisible to the 
>firer) can shift the target point significantly.
>
Yeah, but if you shoot *lots* of needles, that shouldn't matter. :-)

>Tom Hughes
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