Re: SG - New Israeli's _ Eureka Miniatures

>The sonic boom would come from the entire track of the projectile. ie:
from
>point of origin to impact site. Rather hard to pinpoint!  Anyone close
to the
>track would probably not be able to locate the origin, someone further
away
>might be able to say it was to the right or left of target at best.
{This
>assumes no change in pitch or sound as projectile travels & slows down
>through the thick air}. You might have a good idea of where it came
from only
>if the shooters track passes you by to hit something further back (he
misses
>you and clangs the AFV) giving you two points to construct a line (you
and
>the impact!) Besides at this point everyone would hit the deck and all
those
>fancy helmet gizmo's would be looking for IR trace, EM signature (
gauss
>rifle would have one hell of a magnetic signature!!!!)  Magnetics would
NOT
>be blocked by terrain, walls, or anything less than a grounded Farraday
Box. 
>
>I hope this cofuses the issue.
>
>Tom Hughes

How about gadgets working out its point of closest approach by Doppler
shift, then working out where it came from?

>From the silencing point of view, make it double barrelled, and fire
the
darts in such a way that their sound signatures are 180 degrees out of
phase, and silence each other.	Hmm, might it be possible to shape the
surface of the penetrator in such a way that it silences itself?

Rob Paul

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