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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

What a cool idea!

I'd hate to be standing there when a rain of these things started to fall though.

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

It is very cool [Smile]

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And congrats on 10,000 posts.

Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :

Not to be the most morbid of Hatrackers (which I probably am anyways), but what happens when these start to be used as anti-personnel weapons?

EDIT: Heh, I missed the fact that you did indeed think the same thing.

Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :

Well more or less the exact same concept is already used as an anti-personnel weapon. You fill a bomb with explosives and bolts for example, and detonate. Same thing without the flare-ended arrows, but the spread is much wider.

Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :

Yes, but don't the current ones designed as AP weapons (both military and... well, non-military) tend to have a smaller number of actual projectiles in them? It seemed coverage was more of an issue with the one in the article. (They're both going to be eminently lethal, to be sure).

Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :

I'm not sure if they have a smaller number of packed projectiles, but remember that their casings are designed to be instant shrapnel, too.

Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :

It would be an interesting challenge to come up with a mine-defusing system that was inexpensive, effective, and could be used in a populated area (where unexploded ordinance are often the greatest problem.)