| From: | Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Projectile Damage |
| Date: | Sun, 5 Dec 1993 02:42:30 -0600 |
>Ive noticed there are a fair few people out there with some sort of
>millitary background. Could anybody explain how exactly bullet damage
>works ? (DO NOT POST ME STUFF LIKE "IT HURTS")
With ballistic projectiles, damage is contingent upon the size, speed,
and location of impact. Of these factors, muzzle velocity has greatest
bearing, as while the object's kinetic energy, and hence destructive power,
increases geometrically with velocity, while only arithmetically with mass.
Therefore, arises the rationale behind the greater fear of rifles, with their
(generally) higher power projectiles, than those of pistols.
Relatively slow, smaller caliber bullets hardly ever extinguish a
target with any immediacy, as death shall result from brain damage, blood loss,
or infection, e.g. gangrene, coming from material introduced by the bullet or
the breaching of the intestines. The exceptions to this would be certain
cerebral damage or the severing of one of the major arteries--a process which
shall still take on the matter of minutes to effect termination.
High-velocity, small projectiles (e.g. a M-16 round) and their larger
kindred are capable of bringing about almost instantaneous death. They
essentially reduce the tissues surrounding the area of impact to a consistency
of coarsely ground meat. Besides this effect, another decidedly nefarious
capacity of such rounds is hydrostatic shock (as the human body is
predominately water, a shockwave traveling through the liquid shall result from
so dynamic an impact), which shall radiate out from the wound, causing further,
massive tissue and organ trauma and the impairment of nervous system.
Consequently, a wound in one of the peripheral appendages can prove mortal in
certain cases.
Colonel Count von Hohenzollern und von Doom, DMSc, DSc, PhD.
Doom Technologies & Weapon Systems -- Dark Thought Publications
>>> Working on solutions best left in the dark.
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