From: lwcamp@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, March 9, 2018 at 9:42:35 AM UTC-8, Damien Valentine wrote:   
      
   > Who cares what shape the ammunition is?  Its purpose is to travel through a   
   vacuum and deliver its kinetic energy to the target.  Throw cylinders at them;   
   throw spheres; throw dodecahedrons; it doesn't matter!  All this stuff has to   
   do is collide with    
   a high-velocity target.  And fortunately, in space every target counts as   
   "high-velocity".   
      
   Long rod penetrators can punch through significantly more armor and   
   intervening material than more compact shapes.  They can overcome Whipple   
   shields by sacrificing some of their initial length, allowing the remaining   
   length of the penetrator to blast    
   into the armor and bulkheads behind it.     
      
   Luke   
      
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