Timeline for How do guns not penetrate the hull of a spaceship/station and still punch through body armor?
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| Dec 19, 2020 at 1:26 | comment | added | Ken Shirriff | As a historical note, a type of explosive bullet was developed in the 1970s for use by sky marshals to avoid putting holes in the plane when shooting hijackers. (Analogous to the question of avoiding holes in spacecraft.) These "Devastator" bullets were used by Hinckley in the attempted assassination of Reagan in 1981. Ref: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770159 | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 19:16 | history | edited | PcMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2020 at 17:10 | comment | added | computercarguy | You are forgetting physics here. The hull won't get a spherical hole, but an ellipsoid or cylindrical hole, due to the velocity of the round. And with flesh being significantly softer and less dense than the the hull, you're talking a 4-6 inch hole, which might be considered overkill and a war crime. Not like pirates care about war crimes, though. I'm just saying that official govt or company forces wouldn't likely be able to use these rounds. And explosive rounds are currently only Military use only by law in the US. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 12:36 | history | answered | PcMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |