Timeline for How do guns not penetrate the hull of a spaceship/station and still punch through body armor?
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| Dec 21, 2020 at 18:56 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | @The assignment was to design a weapon that would penetrate armour but not hulls, not to design a weapon that adheres to the Geneva convention :-) | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 16:58 | comment | added | computercarguy | @JoeBloggs, except that neurotoxins are against the Geneva Convention and likely against whatever space laws com into existence. | |
| Dec 19, 2020 at 8:22 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | @computercarguy: it could, but a properly designed penetrator would make such a mess of the target’s insides they’d quickly die of internal bleeding anyway. I’d design all sorts of unpleasantly fragmenting/barbed/delayed explosive rounds if I were doing this. Or just coat the tips with a fast acting neurotoxin. Either or. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 18:35 | comment | added | computercarguy | @T.J.L., that's true, however one of the tactics to keep "the enemy" busy is to wound fellow soldiers, so they have to be tended to, reducing the forces by 2 or more, not just 1. And sealing a wound would help keep a soldier fighting, instead of bleeding out and dying. But, yes, keeping blood from floating everywhere and making a mess, or simply inhibiting sight-lines, is definitely a good thing. That's why I said "for good or bad", since there's both pros and cons to automatically sealing a wound. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 18:29 | comment | added | T.J.L. | @computercarguy If we're talking about a null-gee environment, rounds that prevent the person from bleeding could be a good thing. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 17:06 | comment | added | computercarguy | This could also have a tendency to seal wounds. For good or bad, it could help prevent leaking blood everywhere or it could fill a lung. And depending on laws, it might be considered against the equivalent Geneva Convention to use this, as it might be considered torture. Interesting idea, though. Maybe with the right tech, it could be useful. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 6:45 | history | edited | Joe Bloggs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2020 at 6:35 | history | answered | Joe Bloggs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |