11 Jun
2001
11 Jun
'01
3:44 p.m.
On 10 Jun 2001, at 19:33, David Honig wrote:
Well said, but: In _The Irish War_ there's a description of IRA improvised recoilless 'rifles' which, like their .mil-industrial analogues, toss an equal mass out the back end.
They'll actually deliver more energy to the target if MORE mass goes out the back than the front. I can't see any particular advantage to the masses being equal.
The reacting countermass is a bunch of flakes which dissipate the KE against the atmosphere.
This is a particularly efficient design for cypherpunks, since we've got plenty of extra flakes! George