Quote: blackaeronaut wrote:If you want armor-piercing, keep in mind as Fen we have access to cheaper materials; hardened nickel-iron or steel cores in *any* .30 caliber or
How hard do you think it would be to make an effective AP round in a .40 cartridge? I'm thinking high velocity, rocket assisted (like a tracer, but with
punch), and either Teflon-coated tungsten-carbide, or going from broke with depleted uranium? Another option I just thought of is synthetic-diamond
penetrators - ultra-hardness plus ultra-sharpness in a light-weight, safe-to-handle package. Hmmm... HVRASDHP - High Velocity Rocket Assisted Synthetic
Diamond Head Penetrators.
over bullet will penetrate up to Threat Level II Kevlar. One of the most frightening things I've ever encountered was someone who filled a 12-gauge 3"
Magnum shell with steel pin bearings and fired it *through* an old engine block from 25 feet.
That's right, not *at*...*through*.
One reason the "escape from the cave" scene in Iron Man bothers me so much; he's wearing maybe 1/4 inch
of cobbled-together armor and is hit with a M2HB in .50 caliber. Even if we postulate real steel armor plate, that one round should have ended the movie right
there, with a big, dished-in dent in his chestplate and/or a lot of broken weld lines. (There's a *reason* the Admiral
Heinlein has a pair of .50's mounted...)