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Old 09-23-11, 08:04 PM   #8
TLAM Strike
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Originally Posted by Fincuan View Post
Why?

At least ours work as intended, winter or not.
Possable your shells are designed for those conditions.

What I was getting at is that some explosives are two stage. There is a large amount of a standard stable high explosive or non explosive filler and a smaller amount of a more unstable high explosive. Like Dynamite, its Nitroglycerine and an absorbent mixture that prevents it from being unstable. If you freeze it the Nitro can be forced out of the Dynamite and become again highly unstable.

That is the worst case scenario, true Dynamite isn't used by the military anymore but TNT is and for example RDX can leached out of TNT or C4 if its frozen, this could result in a bomb that doesn't explode efficiently and "wastes" its energetic material.

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Originally Posted by Platapus View Post
If I wanted to remotely fire a mortar, I would construct a ramp like cradle and suspend the round from a string. Then choose one of the thousand ways to cause a string to break and Bobs your Uncle.
If you had a Soviet 160MM mortar I think you could rig it for remote fire a lot easier. Its a "break action" mortar, you don't drop the round down the tube.

Down side is: its one big mofo!
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