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To: dangerdoc
Unless they are kicking the shell up out of the atmosphere, which I don’t think it is capable of, the range will be shorter, especially if they are relying on kinetics over explosives.

Using a trajectory calculator, if we neglect air resistance (which, I know, we can't, and it WILL be a big factor, but bear with me) a shell fired at a 45 degree angle at 7920 f/s (= 2414 m/s) would go 594 km, reaching a peak height of 148 km, which is above most of the atmosphere.

39 posted on 04/11/2014 7:07:00 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

And 594 Km = 368 miles. Throw in about 15 miles of air resistance at the start and 15 miles at the end and you get about 200-300 miles range or so.


41 posted on 04/11/2014 8:06:55 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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