Re: SG2 questions, mostly shooting from vehicles

Ok, yes, but from what I read in the rule book, an MDC is a rail gun,
yes?
Now, I've been told that it uses a high rate of fire with smaller
shells,
instead of the single large anti tank shell I was picturing, so my
arguments
doesn't have as much merit, but a sizable rail gun shell, impacting the
earth, should produce a rather sizable explosion. Real world rail guns
(such
as those pioneered for use for SDI) depend upon a PLASTIC (Lexan)
projectile
with a ferrous-metal 'skirt' - during initial tests a 5 GRAM projectile
made
a 6-7 inch wide by 4 inch deep crater in a solid block of aluminum. Now
if
you assume, as I did, that an MDC fires a larger heavier metal
projectile,
the release of energy upon impact with the ground should be similar to a
modern HE shell. Just my thoughts.

shogakusha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Mancini" <peter_mancini@msn.com>
To: <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: SG2 questions, mostly shooting from vehicles

> >From: "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com>
> In the demos I've seen, long-rod penetrators don't make much of a fuss
> when they hit the ground. Nowhere near as much as a 120mm HE shell,
> anyway :-/
> -------------------------
>
> In a demo I saw of a hyper-velocity Kinetic penetrator, the weapon
managed
> to go ping-ping through the turret of an old M-48 leaving a nice clean
hole
> on one side and a somewhat larger hole on the other side.  I was told
the
> shockwave that went through the tank was enough to kill the crew and
do
> other nasty stuff.
>
> If high velocity rounds act like most rifled rounds then typically
what
> happens is they will enter the ground and deflect downwards.	Great if
you
> are up against the Mole Men of Mars.	;-)
>
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