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I think that's 3.5' radius (edit:wrong). Both hits I've seen online have been center-punched in the middle of the roof of the car...amazing precision.
by jcims 7y ago
I think that's 3.5' radius (edit:wrong). Both hits I've seen online have been center-punched in the middle of the roof of the car...amazing precision.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoThe article is ambiguous on this: > the missile, which is roughly three and a half feet wide when its blades are extended That really sounds like a diameter and not a radius. But on the other hand: > Supposedly, three people were killed in the vehicle when the bladed weapon smashed through the roof of the vehicle.
- sq_ 7y agoFrom an earlier article on the same site [0]: > The payload area is roughly a foot and a half long and let's say the swords are roughly the same length, this would provide about a three and a half foot diameter kill zone, which is similar to what we see in the images of the vehicles that have been struck. So it seems like 3.5ft diameter is The Warzone/The Drive's best guess based on the length of a standard Hellfire and the vehicle damage. [0] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31310/this-photo-proves-how-the-hellfire-missile-that-uses-blades-instead-of-explosives-works https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31310/this-photo-prove...
- jcims 7y agoOK I missed that part, makes sense. Realistically you could probably skip the blades and still kill all the occupants in the vehicle with just the seeker/body/motor. That's a lot of kinetic energy getting dumped into an enclosed space.