Re: (TFT) Doing damasge modernly

["rmorger" <rmorger@mail.ev1.net>]

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From: "Charles Gadda" <cgadda@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: tft@brainiac.com
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:44:36 -0800

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "rmorger" <rmorger@mail.ev1.net>
>To: <tft@brainiac.com>
>Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 6:04 AM
>Subject: Re: (TFT) Doing damasge modernly
>
>
>> >Regarding bullets, tissue damage goes with cross sectional
>> >momentum, while actual penetration goes with cross sectional
>> >kinetic energy. So a big heavy slow bullet is effective against
>> >tissue, but not very good against armour.
>>
>> As far as penetration goes, but unless you are talking about a
>> modern type of armor that absorbs the kinetic force, AKA kevlar
>> vest or similar, then the kinetic energy is spent in a direct
>> force blow, AKA being hit by a sledge hammer or mace at full 
swing.
>> Which can kill you every bit as dead as the bullet penetrating 
and
>> bleeding you out.
>>
>> That is one of the reasons armor died when guns became more 
common.
>
>Could you clarify the above? I am not quite sure what you were 
trying to
>say.
>
Basically that old style armor is not very efficient at absorbing 
the blow of a bullet as some of the more modern armors are. In 
plate armor for instance even if the bullet did not penetrate the 
metal, the bullet would still expend its energy in a generally 
small area. The resulting bow would closely match that of a sledge 
hammer or mace blow. Such blows are just as likely to kill you as 
a cutting or penetrating blow would, it just may take more time. 

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