Military Guns and Ammunition
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PDW again Small Arms <20mm
From: graylion
4/1/21
smg762 said:It's well known that anything above 50ft lbs is lethal so a 300ft lbs bullet is sufficient. Why add weight and recoil trying to increase that.
It is? Show me some documentation please.
From: graylion
4/1/21
US Army used to consider 58 ft lbs the minimum to be lethal. That would make a .25 ACP a lethal round. I'm giving up. Whenever I challenge you you dodge, weave and don't provide decent reasoning. kthxbai.
From: poliorcetes
4/1/21
Or a pistol brace, or whatever. I cannot realise any serious use of such ridiculously long "two-handed pistol" or "broadpistol" or zweihander or whatever
From: graylion
4/1/21
poliorcetes said:Or a pistol brace, or whatever. I cannot realise any serious use of such ridiculously long "two-handed pistol" or "broadpistol" or zweihander or whatever
You know, calling that thing a montante is rather hilariously apt.
From: 17thfabn
7/1/21
From: graylion
4-Jan
smg762 said:It's well known that anything above 50ft lbs is lethal so a 300ft lbs bullet is sufficient. Why add weight and recoil trying to increase that.
"It is? Show me some documentation please."
I seem to remember 50 foot pounds from a British study on artillery and what was the ideal fragment size. I think it was a World War II era study.
They wanted a fragment size that would generate at least 50 foot pounds of energy. If I remember correctly a fragment that generated that amount of energy and struck the torso would cause incapacitation per their studies. Probably not immediate incapacitation in most cases.