(Bill Shatzer) wrote in message
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If one fired an M-79 round "too close", it would simply impact with
a thud and no "boom".

Presenting a possible problem for the ordinance disposal folks who
came along later but no particular problem for the firer.


An M406? I assume he wasn't throwing the launcher ;-) Anyway, why wouldn't a
high loft do it? Besides, they armed as close as 14 meters and the wound was a
small cut from a fragment of steel or stone. I wouldn't want to be standing up
ogling 50 feet from one of those!

-- Charlie Springer