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No. The bullet would fragment upon striking the armor, but would be unable to force its way through. The stormtrooper would almost certainly be injured just from the concussive force of the impact, but would quickly regain his senses.Durran Korr wrote:So if you were to fire a .44 round at the armor at point blank, it would bounce right off?
Impressive. How about, say, a gatling gun? The concussive force would likely be enough to knock down the stormie, but would the armor experience any wear and tear?Master of Ossus wrote:No. The bullet would fragment upon striking the armor, but would be unable to force its way through. The stormtrooper would almost certainly be injured just from the concussive force of the impact, but would quickly regain his senses.Durran Korr wrote:So if you were to fire a .44 round at the armor at point blank, it would bounce right off?
Modern gatling guns? Like the ones on aircraft? Of course the armor would show wear and tear. Such weapons might even punch through the armor. The only event we really have which describes ST armor's ability to withstand impacts comes from Lightsabers. In it, we get some idea of the strength of such armor from analysis of the concussive force involved in an impact that threw a young man across a room. The armor was described as being nicked by the impact, with a spear. The concussive force of such a modern depleted uranium round would obviously kill the soldier, but it is unclear whether or not it would be sufficient to punch through his shell. I would guess that it would be sufficient, but stormtrooper armor would even offer survivability against .50 caliber weapons--necessitating anti-tank weapons to reliably kill individual troops.Durran Korr wrote:Impressive. How about, say, a gatling gun? The concussive force would likely be enough to knock down the stormie, but would the armor experience any wear and tear?Master of Ossus wrote:No. The bullet would fragment upon striking the armor, but would be unable to force its way through. The stormtrooper would almost certainly be injured just from the concussive force of the impact, but would quickly regain his senses.Durran Korr wrote:So if you were to fire a .44 round at the armor at point blank, it would bounce right off?
There are some anti-tank rifles that fire steel bullets, but the depleted uranium rounds featured in most modern weapons would probably be able to punch through (and even if they didn't, the wearer would be dead, anyway). There's just one problem with that: I don't know of any rifles that fire such ammunition. I think they are only used in aircraft and tank weapons.Slartibartfast wrote:Maybe from material fatigue. How about the strongest bullet in existence from a sniper rifle?
For an example we -Hungarians- designed one such sniper rifle for anti-terrorist actions a couple of years ago. It's called the "Gepard".Master of Ossus wrote:There are some anti-tank rifles that fire steel bullets, but the depleted uranium rounds featured in most modern weapons would probably be able to punch through (and even if they didn't, the wearer would be dead, anyway). There's just one problem with that: I don't know of any rifles that fire such ammunition. I think they are only used in aircraft and tank weapons.Slartibartfast wrote:Maybe from material fatigue. How about the strongest bullet in existence from a sniper rifle?
Fatigue is an entirely different concept than what you're thinking of.Slartibartfast wrote:Maybe from material fatigue. How about the strongest bullet in existence from a sniper rifle?
You would still have the recoil problem. A light blaster handgun can kill a stormie with a direct hit, so if you need a high-powered projectile weapon to do the same job, the blaster sounds like a better idea all the time. Also, the blaster's lack of gravity drop makes it easier to aim over multi-km ranges, such as those we saw at Geonosis and Hoth.Hm, I think any answer to this is just speculation, but even if it can scratch the armor I think it wouldn't penetrate it, otherwise they would be using super-powered bullets - weapon tech in SW should be able to make a bullet far more powerful than current ones.
well jesus fucking duh, there's a big space of no armor just where it impacted.Kazeite wrote:I know, I know, some will argue that arrow merely pierced bodysuit area
I do not know it exactly either, but as I know it is 12.7 mm, has two different version and capable to penetrate the armor of the BMP1 APC.Boba Fett wrote:For an example we -Hungarians- designed one such sniper rifle for anti-terrorist actions a couple of years ago. It's called the "Gepard".
I don't know it's exact specification but I'm sure it's listed somewhere.
Well, if they can make the armor, I think it's fairly safe to assume that they can make the bulletsMaster of Ossus wrote:The main advantage that SW bullets would have would be their hardness. Since the ammunition we use today has nowhere NEAR the materials strength of stormtrooper armor, the rounds would fragment and absorb most of the energy of the impact themselves. With a SW weapon, I suppose it would be possible to design the thing to be able to transfer considerable amounts of the energy into the stormtrooper, without having the bullet shatter upon impact. That would present an advantage in both penetration and (more importantly) collision mechanics, and would result in a much better method of killing stormies.
With fatigue I meant receiving dozens of hard bullets per second until the material gives up. Then I propòsed using the biggest and most powerful (that might not penetrate) round with a gatling or so, for the same purpose.Darth Wong wrote:Fatigue is an entirely different concept than what you're thinking of.Slartibartfast wrote:Maybe from material fatigue. How about the strongest bullet in existence from a sniper rifle?