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

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gyrojet got around this? Was it just so small you didn't
have to worry about it?

For those that have not heard of a gyrojet:

http://www.littlegun.be/arme%20americaine/a%20gyrojet%20gb.htm

Roger Books

On 10/14/05, Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@telia.com> wrote:
>
> 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@telia.com
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
> What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry
>
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