[NSFL] Injuries to a Russian soldier, presumably from a GLMRS M30A1 rocket with a tungsten bead warhead. - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    Beads are maybe easier to fill the entire space completely where something not spherical could be hard to maximize capacity.

    I also think at the speed they’re traveling, getting hit with anything’s going to be a bad time.

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      1 year ago

      But they could cut a pattern into layers of stamped steel and fill nearly 100%

      I have no idea how that would change it’s effectiveness to spread the material, though.

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        But they could cut a pattern into layers of stamped steel and fill nearly 100%

        This munition is designed against hard targets (vehicles, etc) not necessarily personnel. Stamped steel would likely just splatter to pieces against hardened targets. Tungsten (72 on the periodic scale) is very dense, much more so that steel. That density means more kinetic energy gained from the dispersal explosive, and much greater penetrating power.