| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Double Type Ammo |
| Date: | Fri, 1 May 1998 11:41:05 +0100 |
> I've been thinking of 10mm C-HEAP ammo (caseless high explosive
> armor piercing). It's the same ammo that the M-41A rifle in Aliens use.
> +1 power, halves armor (like APDS) and it's caseless.
The problem I see here is that armor-piercing rounds for small arms
normally have a core of a hard metal (often steel or tungsten) in the soft
metal bullet. However, explosive rounds have a small explosive charge in
the core of the bullet. One or the other has to give -- you can't really
put both into one bullet if you ask me, because then you end up with less
armor-piercing capability _and_ less fragmenting.
For larger-caliber rounds, say 15 mm and up (IRL) you could have rounds
that are both armor-piercing and explosive, but for small arms it's too
much of a trade-off in which you lose a lot and gain very little.
> Could be used in the above mentioned rifle or in a Heavy Pistol (wich I
> think has a calliber of 10mm).
That statement makes about as much sense as saying "A Desert Eagle pistol
is .50 caliber. Can I fire .50 machine gun rounds from it?" IOW, just
because two weapons happen to have the same diameter barrel doesn't mean
they can share ammunition. In SR it's unwise (IMHO) to try and tack actual
calibers onto the guns...
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