[[I wonder if a similar techique can be used against bullets for

At 07:49 AM 8/22/02 -0700, keyser-soze@hushmail.com wrote: personal armor or home defense.] Yes and the dogs don't piss on the rosebushes after the first time they bridge the caps... Bullets would be "anti-personnel artillery" and the article states that vaporizing doesn't work for artillery. So, um, no. I tend to wonder how this would work more than once, and suspect that merely disrupting the shaped charge or changing the stand-off distance is protective. As an aside, I wonder if there are scale problems with huge shaped charges; could a 100' diam 100' tall charge destroy a bunker 300' deep? (Supposing you could get the army engineers on the ground to build it.. a kinda military burning man I suppose..)

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