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Maybe the outermost layers just transferred the energy to the innermost, which exploded tiny shards of glass? In general though, I agree, weird.
by gnarlouse 1y ago
Maybe the outermost layers just transferred the energy to the innermost, which exploded tiny shards of glass? In general though, I agree, weird.
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- Jalad 1y agoAnd in tank warfare this is called spalling A projectile hits the armor and doesn't penetrate it, but the armor inside still fragments and injured the operators
- Aloisius 1y agoThere a picture of glass spall in the cockpit and it's not unusual for ballistics glass to spall when hit by a projectile. https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatLookedExpensive/comments/1oalnxh/united_airlines_737_max_pilot_injured_after_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatLookedExpensive/comments/1oalnx...
- hinkley 1y ago> Spalling This was also adopted by The Expanse, where the interiors of ships (particularly war ships) are coated in antispalling coatings.
- flashman 1y agodidn't help Shed Garvey lol
- hinkley 1y agoMy read is that it works mostly for battle shrapnel and space mining accidents and does nothing for kinetic weapons, hit or miss for micrometeoroids.
- kataklasm 1y agoShed was killed by a railgun round. These are kinetic projectiles, spall lining doesn't do anything against those.
- hinkley 1y agoIf it somehow could then aiming for the reactor would spin the ship so hard you’d pulp some of the crew.
- lotrjohn 1y agoHey bossman thanks for pointing this out. Will have to look for it next time I watch. Yam seng.
- hinkley 1y agoIt’s mentioned in the books, kopeng. I think it comes up in some of the repair scenes, but there’s such a jargon dump in many of them that it might slip by. Naomi is caressing some of it at one point, like she’s petting a cat. Which is not far off from how she sees the Roci.
- usefulcat 1y ago*bosmang. I'm not sure it's mentioned in the show, but it is in the books.
- hinkley 1y agoI can think of two in the show, but one is right before Holden needs to tell Nagata something important, and the other is in the middle of a brain dump at Tycho station when the Roci is being diagnosed for repairs. Might have been a mention on the Agatha King.
- hinkley 1y agoThat would be two layers though. But the coloration in the window sure suggests spalling. I’m surprised the tempered glass did that much damage. That takes a lot of velocity. Which is probably why they aren’t thinking bird.