| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Scott Dean Peterson) |
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| Subject: | was Great Dragon now Explosives (long) |
| Date: | Tue Aug 13 15:55:01 2002 |
> > Who said anything about diameter.
Gurth said,
> Both of you were talking about larger warheads. My idea is
> that a larger warhead
> requires a bigger launch tube. (Note that I do realize a
> larger warhead is not
> necessarily the same as a more powerful one, or vice-versa.)
The central idea I thought was to increase the amount of explosives weight
wise because of lowered weight on the rest of the system. And the idea I
had for that was to use either more powerful explosives or a denser one
packing more into the same space/ weight ratio.
> > look at WW2 and Comp B. Big blocks and only 4 times as powerful as
> > sticks of TNT. Then Look at Vietnam and C-4. I'd have to
> pull out my
> > engineers filed book to get exact numbers but basically
> about 3-6 times
> > as powerful as Comp B. Now we have syntex which is 8 times
> as powerful
> > as C-4. See where I'm going with this?
> To inaccurate numbers, I suspect :) My 1967 US Army
> demolitions manual says
> Composition B and C4 are about the same strength. What gives?
Ok let me look it up. And I think I was slighted buy the fact that
shadowrun has stepped explosive power. Ok my Engineer Field Data Book,
dated 1976 says: (and it is a bit complicated so hope you like
math)<summery>
Explosives and Demolitions Chapter 2
Section 1 Intro
2-1 chararecteristics of explosives: uses for rapid construction of
obstacles, breaching enemy obstacles and blasting (note not for anti
personnel use) See table for primary uses of US Military Explosives and
relative Effectiveness (RE) factors.
2-2 the formula used in this chapter gives the weight pf the explosive (P)
required for the task. Where any explosive other than TNT is used the
required pounds of explosives is obtained by dividing P by RE factor.
Fractions are rounded up.
TNT re of 1 Detonation Value 23,000 fps
Tetrytol 1.2 23,000
C-4 1.34 26,000
Dynamite .92 20,000
no others on the list concern the discussion. Comp B is not listed but I
would presume it to be Tetrytol. Unless you have something I don't in your
book. I don't have the Demolitions Manuel here because I found that the
engineer field book was more use to me as a Mortar man.
> If you use a more powerful explosive, it's probably going to
> weigh about the same
> as the original one, so there'd be no need to lower the rest
> of the weapon's
> weight.
Again I'm not a materials expert but recall my previous posts about
'density' or packing more punch into the same space/weight.
Scott 'Edge' Peterson
Warrior Priest of Storm Haven
Ex epidemiologist El Paso County, El Paso Texas
Ex combat infantry man, 60% disabled.
Ex NREMT-P Nationally Registered Paramedic
Training Medical Anthropologist/MPH
