This stumped me

**DingDong** · 4th December 2005, 13:43

The Navy boys & girls should know there are currently tumbling rounds for punching holes in in armour plating, which is rectangular... I dont know what they call them but I'd call them rounds (even tho they're not round)

But what eva

**Sniper** · 4th December 2005, 13:52

Sabot?

I don't see how a tumbling round would carry enough energy to punch through armour plating

**DingDong** · 4th December 2005, 13:58

Originally Posted by Sniper

Sabot?

I don't see how a tumbling round would carry enough energy to punch through armour plating

Sorry... its a high caliber (sp?) deck gun on war ships

**Sniper** · 4th December 2005, 14:11

Originally Posted by wayne kohi

Sorry... its a high caliber (sp?) deck gun on war ships

Oh, sorry, see what you mean now. Those big 12.5 will fuck you up big time if they land close to you. (Heard from a reliable source)

**NordieBoy** · 4th December 2005, 14:34

Originally Posted by Biff

Then there's the issue of drag v air resistance associated with objects with sharp corners travelling through the air etc.

And still Kawasaki makes bikes with sharp edges...

**idb** · 4th December 2005, 15:48

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

And still Kawasaki makes bikes with sharp edges...

Brilliant!!!!
You brought the thread round to bikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Hitcher** · 4th December 2005, 16:07

DU knocks a reasonably decent hole in most armour known to man. Especially when thrown from a 120mm smooth bore or, preferably, a rifled 120mm L30 CHARM.

**Skyryder** · 4th December 2005, 16:25

Originally Posted by Sniper

"Would bullets still be called rounds if they were square?"

Your thoughts please.

Sounds like a bit of lateral thinking's gone into the question.

Skyryder

**Skyryder** · 4th December 2005, 16:30

Originally Posted by scumdog

And then there's the waiting for the pub to open thing - when you're hanging a-round.

Or its time to shout for you round.

Is this still a kiwi tradition or did it die a slow death with the 6 o'clock swill?

Skyryder

**scumdog** · 5th December 2005, 01:06

Originally Posted by Skyryder

Or its time to shout for you round.

Is this still a kiwi tradition or did it die a slow death with the 6 o'clock swill?

Skyryder

No, you can still shout a round (Export thanks) but the 6 o'clock swill died 'round' about the mid 60's (any pedant put an exact date on the end of the 6 o'clock swill?)

**MikeL** · 5th December 2005, 07:56

Since I'm not a pedant I can't give a precise date, but from memory it was about 1967 I think.

**sAsLEX** · 5th December 2005, 09:05

Originally Posted by Sniper

Sabot?

not a tumbling round but a fuckin fast round of hard shit that uses its immense kinetic energy to travel through armour

Originally Posted by Sniper

Oh, sorry, see what you mean now. Those big 12.5 will fuck you up big time if they land close to you. (Heard from a reliable source)

No one uses them anymore, if you are talking about the big 12.5 inch 16 inch guns etc

the good old day of battleships like the missouri are gone, where the main guns threw rounds the size and weight of minis 30 odd k and the ships would leap a few feet sideways on a broadside, last used in battle in the Gulf conflict

replaced with more accurate longer range faster 5 inch weapons that with special rounds can reach 100 odd ks and then there is missiles and aircraft that make the modern Navy so much more powerful

**Ixion** · 5th December 2005, 09:09

Originally Posted by scumdog

See, you looked at the other thread and it was worse, - should have stayed here and lern't summat, I mean when the fuzzy-wuzzies hordes come over the horizon and you can't get you Brown Bess loaded ..

Tch tch man. The Brown bess was long obsolete by the time anyone was fighting Fuzzy Wuzzy. Martini-Henry maybe, or Snider on the other side.