From:	"DEmon, CEO of Hell." <DEMON69@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject:	about those dikoted rounds...
Date:	Thu, 8 Apr 93 12:16:30 CET

First, I like your ideas Quicktek, but I've got one problem (see the
response to the Diamond Tipped, and one correction on the APF rounds.

>-- Quiktek
>a.k.a. Todd Montgomery
>tmont@****.wvu.edu
>
>Armor Piercing Fletchette (APF)
>
>These rounds are made in the fashion of GAP rounds but are sculpted to
>tear and split the flesh like needles, not like bullets. The low
>weight and high number of projectiles incorporated in these rounds
>makes these rounds deadly to even heavily armored targets. The general
>configuration of a standard APF round is 12 needle shaped projectiles
>in a ring formation around a four central,larger projectiles. The
>projectiles are shaped to spin without a barrel grouve. Thus less
>dispersion over long ranges. These rounds are NOT for Shotguns.
Actually, what you have just described is exactly for a shotgun. It is
what the Isrealis meant when they said, "Fletchette" which means (if I
remember correctly) "to skin" in French. The Isrealis intended them
for use as subsonic rounds from a four gage shotgun. The idea was for
crowd control. If you've got 1000 people rioting and the military is
going to have to kill someone to restore order, then kill one of them
gruesomely and scare everyone else into docility. The rounds, when
fired on a crowd, had the oposite effect. It pissed people off so bad
that they went even more berserk. However, the military quickly
recognized the value of Flachette rounds as an anti-personnel tool.

>Diamond Tipped (Dikote (tm)) (DTR)
>
>These rare rounds are needle sharp projectiles that are designed in a
>tapering cone form for use in some standard firearms. The projectile
>is made of Telfon-Mesh, the point is filed to razor sharpness and the
>whole projectile is coated with Dikote. After heat tempering and UV
>treating, the projectile is packed in a specially designed casing. The
>casing is packed with a special propellant mix that hearls the
>projectile at speeds of twice to even three times that of conventional
>high-powered sniping rifles. The only drawbacks are that the round
>DOES have a metal case, and because of this the gun must be specially
>modified.
>Effect: Armor is ignored, -2 to Power.
While I like this idea, you would have to alter the gun significantly!
I heard about a test with Vanadium ammo (Rev, was that you telling me?)
in which the rifling grooves in the barrel of the 30.06 were totally
removed by a single shot! Diamond is much harder than vanadium, and
I think you have to Dikote (at least) the inside of the barrel before
you could use this ammo. (or is that what you meant by "specially
modified"?)

Trilobite
aka Mike Barrett.