RE: New Life for Millennium's End

["Joni Virolainen" <joni.virolainen@xxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian McDonald [mailto:Brian_mcdonald@uniserve.com]
>
> there is a lovely book out there about a private enterprise
> attempt to "fix" the
> saddam problem.  It's not a bad read but at the end of the book is a nice
> chapter on the physics behind shooting at 1 km plus ranges.  If i
> could remember
> the title i would post it but twas long ago and far away.  One of
> the factoids
> that did strike was that you have to start worrying about the
> rate of spin of
> the bullet as it will start to move that way.  Over a thousand
> meters its not an
> insignificant distance couple times the width of a head i think
> it was.  Also
> the temperature of the air can move the bullet significantly by
> changing the
> density of the air hence the resistance.  It was a british book if memory
> serves.  Anyone out there recognize it?
>
Yes, I have read it a few years ago. I'm not sure of the English name as I
read the Finnish translation of the book but it might have been "Elk Hunter"
or something like that. I think the writer was a retired Colonel (of SAS?).

"Even heroes die..."
- Oni

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