* Posts by CountZero

2 publicly visible posts • joined 7 May 2010

Microsoft goes AC/DC with Instaload battery tech

CountZero

The Logo Is The Answer

Officially licensed InstaLoad products will sport the InstaLoad Logo!

Green Berets to get Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle

CountZero
WTF?

Hitting around corners or at enemy in a trench?

I don't think so. When the smart bullet explodes, say 1 m beyond the corner or just above the trench, the shrapnel will happily continue their path mainly along the line of flight of the bullet, spreading out in a cone, centered around that flight path. No way it is going to halt its forward momentum and exclusively rain down on the unsuspecting enemy. The XM-25 is already 20 years in development and still they did not find a way to set aside basic laws of physics? Sheesh. Did anybody perhaps think of making an explosive bullet with a delayed contact fuse? Ask your basic artillery-man, we got that stuff for ages already. And to hit someone in a trench you need high angle fire. Our great-grandfathers in the Great War knew that already.