Re: [SGII] Fire of AT Missiles at disperesed tagets

At 8:17 PM +0100 1/24/05, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
>
>According to the Falkland War histories I've read, those .50 cal 
>crew served weapons were dug in. Firing pits are one of the types of 
>"similar very restricted spaces" I mentioned in the part of my 
>previous post which you snipped when you wrote your reply:

Granted, though even if they weren't dug in, they're more of a point 
target than a squad dispersed over a 50' front.

>Other than directly ahead of the ATGM, even a small mortar round has 
>a considerably greater lethal effect.

I had always thought the HE was focused towards the shaped charge, 
but that there was a secondary annular blast that was still not to be 
shrugged at. To modern Shaped charges have any kind of restricting 
material around the HE component to optimize the blast towards the 
cone? Granted there generally isn't any fragmentation component on 
them but even something like IPDSM is nasty to be near as they have 
an area frag effect and a shaped charge piercing effect. Could a man 
portable ATGM with enough diameter to it's shaped charge have a 
secondary Frag effect in it's blast radius?

Gosh, thinking about the general cone shaped effect of old WWII style 
artillery (HE rounds) is there a similar effect with lower velocity 
ATGMs?
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