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|    eripe to MrAnderson    |
|    Re: Kinetic cluster bomb    |
|    16 Apr 16 16:36:52    |
      From: eripe.dk@gmail.com              On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 6:01:44 AM UTC+7, MrAnderson wrote:       > Yeah, I want this to be an anti personnel weapon (zombie herd anyone?:p)       > At first, I was thinking about 10x30 cm cone, but later I changed to       something smaller, a few centimeters long and wide, I think that's enough for       killing people and cars. I had a problem with estimating damage, because I       don't know effects of kinetic        hit at those speeds, I know KE equation, but it gives me only knowledge of       energy in joules, not how it is distributed. I used online calculator for tnt       with energy of my bullets, but I don't know how that's accurate...              I just remembered this one:       https://what-if.xkcd.com/28/               might help.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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