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Some good points Targan. Perhaps because .50 BMG has such a thick jacket and doesn't deform actually improved his chances in a roundabout way, straight through with a nice clean hole at either side, less damage than if the round tumbled, a classic case of overpenetration
![]() As for hydrostatic shock, it's such a murky concept I think it needs a whole lot more research done before I am totally convinced of either 1. it causes damage significant enough to cause death 2. it doesn't cause enough damage to warrant its inclusion as a factor in the stopping and/or killing power of a round. Having started my training with the L1A1 and then later the F88 and having shot a few animals with .308 and .223, I'm leaning more towards big'n'slow will screw you up and fast'n'light will annoy you (there's a reason individual flechette rounds for rifles were discontinued). I think that hydrostatic shock while definately causing some wounding effect, tends to be overestimated in those effects |
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FWIW, in GURPS an AP round halves effective armor but then has it's damage divided by two against a living target.
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Actualy the antitank rifle was used in Korea as well by the Chicoms as a long range sniper weapon.
I also remember reading about the soviet antitank rifles at Kursk. And some tanks would have several holes in their vehicles so stopping was not done. On a T2K note, I have just added an NPC who has a modified Soviet antitank rifle, just so he can have the benefit of a very heavy round to deal with vehicles and such at roadblocks, as well as taking pot shots at enemy forces who are in fortifications. You must admit, sometimes a few well placed rounds of something heavy is what is called for, not a burst from a machinegun or a larger round or a rocket launcher. And since the round is found with Ivans heavy MGs it is fairly easy to get. Modifications my NPC made was a modern bipod, a thick buttpad for the stock and a folding stock with built in shock absorber and of course a muzzlegreak and a few inches of the barrel has been cut off for portability.
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(SGM Mills had a lot of those little tidbits. Since his previous assignment before being an ROTC instructor was high up at 5th SF Group, he was still hooked into the "SF Network." I remember him distinctly to this day because I learned so much from him.)
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