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A stinger missile has a rocket motor who's back blast can easily cause serious injuries or death to a grown adult man; every manual for shoulder launch munition
by somerandomqaguy 3y ago
A stinger missile has a rocket motor who's back blast can easily cause serious injuries or death to a grown adult man; every manual for shoulder launch munitions calls to make sure that the backblast area of a launcher is clear of friendlies.
There's 1.02kg of HTA high explosive to launch shrapnel with. The M67 fragmentation grenade carries 0.182 kg of high explosive, kill radius of 5 meters, injury radius of 15 meters.
Would you want, "Move fast and break things," development attitude with an electronically detonated bomb less then an inch from your head?
- dghlsakjg 3y agoThere’s a difference between being able to iterate quickly and move fast, and the “move fast and break things” ethos. The P-51 Mustang went from conception to flying prototype in 179 days by a company that had never built a fighter before. Fighters aren’t famous for being lower stakes than bazookas. I know that complexity doesn’t scale linearly, but we can use the Dragon vs Starliner development to make the point that legacy military contractors have forgotten how to move with purpose. The Starliner capsule has been in development for longer than the entire Apollo program, is years overdue, and still has no scheduled crew test flight. The dragon, meanwhile, made by a company that famously moves fast, has successfully, and safely, been flying crewed missions for years. That seems pretty high stakes to me…