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They are also a lot more "effective" than ww1 munitions. Each bomb could contain up to 7500 gravel mines each capable of wounding or killing a person http://ww
by yread 10y ago
They are also a lot more "effective" than ww1 munitions. Each bomb could contain up to 7500 gravel mines each capable of wounding or killing a person
http://www.inertord.com/subgravelmines.html http://www.inertord.com/subgravelmines.html
or here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-43_Dragontooth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-43_Dragontooth
weighing 20g, looking like a fucking toy, 4800 of them in a cluster bomb.
- kragen 10y agoThere's no reason gravel mines have to weigh that much. Those 20g include 9g of explosive. A .22 short cartridge still contains enough explosive to kill you if it's aimed in the right place, but that's 250mg of black powder, which is half as energy-dense much less brisant than modern explosives. So you could easily imagine "mines" that were a tenth of that size, 2g, with an embedded microcontroller to trigger them under arbitrary conditions, and enough explosive to maim you if you picked them up or stepped on them. A 1kg-payload weather balloon could carry 500 such "mines". It's going to be difficult to keep having civilization.