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Old 03-15-2009, 07:19 PM
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Default Airburst frag radius........
.......repeat, RADIUS of a 5" 38 cal HE shell is 1000 yards. Depending on ground penetration, it's much shorter for a 5" shell landing on dirt. On rock........h-m-m-m-m-m.

As for a 16", ya might want to be one time-zone away. Those "small" bursts you see on Iwo or, later, Inchon are after mega penetration (20 feet min.). They couldn't fuse them for surface burst. Only VTF, and then they got air-bursts. They wanted to "dig the enemy out" at both sites. Best spot for a 16" is a solid rock plateau---THEN you'd see sumpin!!!!
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