Straha wrote:Sea Skimmer wrote:
The rifleman's assault weapon is basically the rifle grenade launcher from hell. It fits over and under the barrel of an M16. The attachment works by tapping off some of the gas released when a normal ball round is fired from the rifle and uses it to propel the grenade, which is on the launcher hung under the barrel.
The Grenade is about the size of a couple human fists and has a high explosive squash head warhead with a pound of plastic explosives in it. The Thing can kill a M48 tank frontally and is accurate to 300 meters.
Based off what Kyle's home made bombs did to the T1 terminator, this should blow the Terminator in half at the very minimal, likely it would blow it in half and knock off the head and limbs. A chest hit would likely annihilate the whole chest and send whats left flying for about 10 meters.
The best thing is, the grenade is almost all plastic, and so it can be safely used at near point blank range.
The T-800 took two bombs and was still able to chase Sarah. And one of them was amplified by an oil tanker explosion, and that did no structural damage, while the other one was lodged in his hip bone area and it only blew the thing into two still operating chunks. Unless you have enough time, ammo, and distence you would be doomed!
This is why I'd much rather go with a nuke, Phased Plasma Rifle, or an E-11 in that order.
The fact that you think a homemade pipe bomb has anywhere near the power of a one-pound HESH round is conformation that you have no idea what you're talking about. The fact that you think the T-800 was undamaged after the truck explosion also puts in doubt the fact that you've seen the movie, did you not notice to close up of its non-functional left leg?
Amplified by an oil truck explosion? Those bombs were so weak they didn't even blow out the tires on the T-800s motorcycle, or those of the pickup even when one exploded directly along side them.
The ability of such a bomb to even set off a gasoline tanker is really doubtful. However it did explode, and the blast into the cabin would have been minimal, and reduced by passing through several layers of steel. Gasoline doesn’t have much explosive power, and generates only a small blast wave.
A bomb in that part of the T-800s frame would only direct a couple percent of its blast into it, and that was still enough to split it in two and blow the legs apart. A far more powerful bomb directing about 2/3s of its blast into the chest is going to blow the head off at the least along with reducing the chest to scrap metal.
In tests the RAW blasted clear though 65mm armor grade steel plate, and could knock off 12-inch wide scabs off steel of the backs of 200mm thick plates.
Why you would want to use a nuke when your 50 meters from the target with LOS and no cover is beyond me. Even the world's smallest 250-ton yield weapons would leave you quite vaporized.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956