08-25-2013, 01:22 PM | #1 | |||||
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[House Rules, Ultra-Tech] A more smart-mattery HEMP warhead
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I am thinking that one or more (relatively shallow) bowl shapes for EFPs would be built into the side of the round and a conventional cone shaped shaped charge would be at the tip. One or the other would work depending on order and timing of detonators used or the detonators fire in such a way as to give more or less standard high explosive fragmentation results. |
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08-25-2013, 01:36 PM | #2 |
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Re: [House Rules, Ulta-Tech] A more smart-mattery HEMP warhead
Concussion rounds actually include a larger quantity of explosives, and smart matter isn't going to create more boomex from nowhere. While being able to program a warhead to not produce fragments is reasonable given smart matter, the result is just no fragments, no other stats change.
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08-25-2013, 01:36 PM | #3 | |
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Speaking of HEC one clever ultra-tech weapon you could replace them with would be DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosive) which gets no armor multiplier, they're just as penetrating as a normal round, and causes no fragmentation. That would make them an interesting trade off with normal HE round. TL8 and 9 versions should take -1/die and carry a risk of causing illnesses like heavy metal poisoning or cancer to people within the blast radius. TL10 versions can do full damage and carry not risk of illness. |
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08-25-2013, 02:46 PM | #5 | |
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I don't see a reasonable and realistic way create a round where you can decide the amount of fragmentation you want. Here are two cutaway images of a grenade: http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jay3...odel6.png.html https://sphotos-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/h...99065529_n.jpg The fragmentation is those little circles in the drawing and the little cubes in the photograph. It is held between the casing and the explosive charge. Making the casing lighter does nothing so long as you have the fragmentation material present. A light cased explosive means that it has neither a heavy case which might produce incidental fragments and that it contains no material to produce intentional fragmentation. |
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08-25-2013, 03:15 PM | #6 | ||
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08-25-2013, 03:58 PM | #7 | |
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The aerodynamics of the round would be massively altered by such a change which would alter the path of the round. Either the targeting system would have to be extremely precise (and the timing of the discard similarly precise) or the bullet would need guidance. I will concede that it is technically possible but you'd end up going through an awful lot of trouble to make it work when there's no good reason to do so. I suspect that an outer case of fragmentation material would travel poorly as well and in weapons meant to be fired rather than thrown might to problematic things inside the barrel. Even if you did overcome that issue it would be a boutique round, popular with the tacticool crowd, since the mechanical and software complexities will probably increase both the cost and risk of malfunction. Any serious warfighting group would just carry both concussive and fragmenting rounds. Unless there is a persistent need to change from fragmenting to concussion ever few seconds there is no actual benefit. Put another way if you're going into a situation where "we need 10 frag grenades" is as likely to be true as "we need 10 concussion grenades" you know so little about the situation that you should bring ten of each! The point of a non-fragmenting round is to prevent people or the environment from people hit by fragmentation for some reason. This doesn't entirely stop that problem since it would leave the fragmentation speeding toward the target at a very high speed. Essentially you've fired a shotgun along with your explosive. At close range a worst case scenario is the explosion might turn still airborne fragments into ordinary fragmentation and they're guaranteed to be closer to you than the target. |
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