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   On Friday, March 31, 2017 at 1:45:18 PM UTC-7, MrAnderson wrote:   
   > So, this little idea came to me when designing my warship, and I think it's   
   interesting topic to consider in a new thread, how about using a tandem   
   kinetic warhead to puncture the whipple shield? The projectile is launched,   
   and when it's near the    
   target, it divides into two parts by small rocket (that's to have a small gap   
   between two hits), and, when first hit makes a hole in first layer and weakens   
   the second, the second hit goes through the hole in first layer, and hits the   
   weakened second    
   layer, and still has some energy to deal damage behind the armor.   
   > Any thoughts?   
      
   That can certainly work.  It's sort of like the way a long-rod penetrator   
   works (after all, a Whipple shield is only going to ablate off the front of   
   the penetrator, to a length roughly equal to the shield's thickness).  Even   
   better, have the projectile    
   divide up into a "string of beads" - a length of many separate individual   
   parts, each far enough apart that the impact blast from one doesn't interfere   
   with the next in line.   
      
   Luke   
      
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