Kevin Brooks wrote in message
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Think about what you just said. The fact that the standard Hellfire
uses a
HEAT warhead does not really greatly affect the blast effect; it only
means
that a portion of the blast has been used (as it expands outward) to
invert
the liner and turn it into a stream of really hot metal and gas
focused on a
small area. The explosive still exhibits a generally spherical blast
pattern
overall. Set a fifteen pound demo shaped charge against the average
passenger vehicle and you'll see that it does not *need* the shaped
charge
effect to do a pretty good number on the target; that much HE going
off in
close contact to the car will tend to ruin everyone's day if they were
unfortunate enough to be inside it.

Brooks

I don't believe you, I think we need to see a few hundred more test
shots. ;-)

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