Pondering

[den]

I wonder how shaped charges would go in space.

Comments

[tropism.livejournal.com]

See my comment below about the nature of self-forging fragment shaped-charge weapons. This kind of device actually would be pretty great for use in space: it creates a projectile and shoots it out with a very high impulse, and it creates a kind of shotgun effect of smaller particles. You do want a relatively massive platform to deploy them from so that the projectile doesn't lose a lot of velocity, but the nature of the shaped charge should partially mitigate this, and you could always initiate a counterexplosion antipodal to the weapon if you want to make a lot of small one-shot mines.

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