| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Launched and Air-timed Grenades |
| Date: | Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:56:55 +0100 |
the street was...
> There are all kinds of ways to time an air burst drop. The simplest and
> least accurate is a timer which starts with the drop and detonates after a
> set time. More common, a simple altimiter is used for the trigger: it
> detonates at a set altitude within a given margin of error. There are
> other ways of fusing an air burst, but the altimiter is still a winner for
> both simplicity and accuracy. They cannot be jammed like radar, or
> obscured by smoke or clouds like IR and other opticals. Not particularly
> high-tech at all, really.
The reason I called them "(relatively) high-tech" is because this requires
something more complicated than a simple impact fuse (which tend to
detonate shells only once they've buried themselves underground). If it
looks like I suggested that it requires SR-level technology or anything
close to that, perhaps I should have chosen my words more carefully...
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