Re: [GZG] [SG] Cracking Eggs with a Sledgehammer, was Power Armour with Shotguns

[Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Bilderback wrote:

> >>>Even if the countermass consists of plain water, it can do pretty nasty
> >>>things to anything standing too close behind the weapon...
> >>
> >>And just how would you define "too close" in the given context?
> >
> >Up to at least 2-3 meters,
>
> I'm just curious how you arrived at that figure.

First-hand experience with countermass weapons and recoilless guns, 
including seeing the marks the various countermasses we use can make on 
steel plates.

> Is that what it is now?

No, today the danger zones behind countermass weapons are typically around 
*20* meters in Earth sea-level atmosphere.

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx

"Life is like a sewer.
 What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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