Re: Ballistics

["Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen@xxxxxxxx>]

>   About how far up would a 7.62 Nato round go if fired straight up?  and

I actually crunched the physics on this one.  In a vacuum, the round will 
travel well into the upper stratosphere.  Given that it has air to push 
through, it still can endanger commercial jetliners.

> about the distance for a 5.56 Nato round?

About the same.

> some friends and i were talking about how much threat a group of people
> on the ground could be to aircraft.  i have read of units if ww1 being

The question isn't whether or not your weapon has the range; the question is 
whether you can put up enough rounds to make the shot density such that a 
plane is essentially guaranteed of inhaling an FMJ into its engines.

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