Timeline for How do guns not penetrate the hull of a spaceship/station and still punch through body armor?
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| Dec 22, 2020 at 23:25 | comment | added | scubbo | Makes sense - thanks! | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 20:49 | comment | added | Patrick M | @scubbo It was deployed in 2010. I'm going to make a wild guess, that it spent at least 3 years in development, so was conceived before 2007. Imagine you're in a pre-iPhone world. It might be difficult to find a battery that'll stay reliable and keep charge for years, survive the temperatures the military demands of its equipment, fit in a grenade, and survive the incredible launch G-forces. The US military also gives preference to weapons that work after being hit by EMP. With all of those design considerations, I could see someone choosing a device that counts rotations. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 20:07 | comment | added | scubbo | > counts rotations Interesting. I guess that's a low-tech way of implementing a timer. Do you know anything about the reasoning behind choosing this rather than an electronic timer - cost, for example? It seems to me that a physical measure like this would be less reliable, but maybe that's my bias showing. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 18:35 | comment | added | Bitsplease | I Agree with the last point, it seems to me that in any realistic space combat scenario, the first thing you're going to do is suit up and pump the atmo out of the ship's cabins. Not only do you not have to worry about losing air and suffocating, but now you don't need to worry about something catching fire on your ship | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 11:54 | history | answered | Dragongeek | CC BY-SA 4.0 |