Explosive Bullets

ed_209a · 05-21-2009, 05:49 PM

I just noticed something odd in UT.

The default smallarm ammunition at TL10 is a jacketed slug, not too different from today. An APDS round costs 5x as much as a FMJ to make.

Shaped charge rounds are only twice as expensive as a FMJ (UT155)?

Does that seem funny to anyone else? I would think that any kind of HEAT round would be much more complex to manufacture than any sabot round. No matter what your industrial base is, more complex always costs more than less complex.

05-21-2009, 05:49 PM	#14
ed_209a Join Date: Sep 2004	Re: Explosive Bullets I just noticed something odd in UT. The default smallarm ammunition at TL10 is a jacketed slug, not too different from today. An APDS round costs 5x as much as a FMJ to make. Shaped charge rounds are only twice as expensive as a FMJ (UT155)? Does that seem funny to anyone else? I would think that any kind of HEAT round would be much more complex to manufacture than any sabot round. No matter what your industrial base is, more complex always costs more than less complex. __________________ “Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"