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To: balch3
I wouldn’t want to stand in front of one, but it doesn’t seem like that would do much damage to a hardened target.

Except take that force and concentrate the impact into an area the size of the round. To put the 32 megajoules in comparison, a .45 only has about 600 joules of kinetic energy. That amount of concentrated energy is staggering.... and that is before the consideration of a rapid succession of these projectiles hitting the same point.

19 posted on 02/28/2012 9:01:57 PM PST by mnehring
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To: mnehring

no kidding. They should call this think the “Atom Gun” because after the real rounds hit something, I think that’s about the biggest piece that will be left.

A nice option til the photon torpedo is available.


23 posted on 02/28/2012 9:08:37 PM PST by bigbob
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