From:	"Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject:	Re: Double Type Ammo
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 11:34:55 -0300

Gurth escreveu:
>
> Ubiratan P. Alberton said on 13:58/30 Apr 98...
>
> > 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.

I'm not a guns expert... I just based that on what they said in the
movie Aliens,
wich takes place a lot of years in the future.

>
>
> > 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...
>

I assume the M-41A fires HP ammo (how else could you fit 95 bullets in
a clip?).
So, it has a base damage of 9M, or 10M armor-piercing with the C-HEAP
ammo. I say
again that I'm not a specialist, so I may be wrong again.

Ubiratan