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RE: [SG2] APFCs in Stargrunt

From: Adrian Johnson <ajohnson@i...>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:36:57 -0500
Subject: RE: [SG2] APFCs in Stargrunt

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>I suspect in real life there might be good reasons not to load your 
>vehicle with piles of charges on strips - what about a GAC firing at 
>your vehicle, as it sits in them middle of your infantry? It might 
>set off some of the APFCs! What about the whack of a non-penetrating 
>artillery shell (or even a near miss)! It might be enough to set off 
>the APFC.  Anyway, maybe we'll have these. Probably will. But I 
>suspect they will evolve doctrine that limits them, and the 
>implementaiton will have limited firings. 
>
>

Nowadays they're putting fragmentation rounds into the smoke launchers
on
armoured vehicles as a potentially very effective anti-infantry device.
Limited numbers (like smoke launchers), but this is for sure the way
things
will go.

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