I need a hand guys.

[Orkronos]

Ok so one day last week i was sitting on class and I had an idea. I know older AA missiles both nato and Warsaw-pact can be dodged by a fighter if the pilot is quick on there toes. But i had an idea that a missile air to ground or air to air could track its target but instead of impacting it would detonate and send out a cone of razor shrapnel toward the aircraft. However Im curious if that would do damage enough to bring it down. I know it could kill the pilot at the right angle but what about the rest of the aircraft?  

[Fresnel]

You mean a flak missile?  

[Orkronos]

kinda but it seeks out the aircraft and fragments at close range.  

[Man of the Demoneye]

how about we make it more complicated and control the blast to shoot the flak like a shotgun? That might increase overall damage.  

[ArmasTermin]

Just sounds a little pointless. Like, the missile detonates a directed grenade at the plane? Why not just have the missile ram it like they already do? You put a bowling-ball sized hole into any place on a small aircraft and, one way or another, it's pretty much coming down.

Why put more expensive technology in it to do the same thing? Unless you mean have the missile do the directed grenade blast and then ram the plane, well that's better. But from a military budget standpoint, ramming is enough, especially since it rams, then explodes inside the plane. What's worse, a grenade going off next to you, or swallowing one?  

[Freak_090]

Hell, why not just have them detonate shortly AFTER impact while it is inside the plane?  

[Buki_Actual]

You mean like a shaped charge?  

[Orkronos]

well my original idea was a large missile would detonate over a formation of aircraft. Thus accomplishing with one missile what normally would take 10 or even 20  

[Inquisitor Brock]

They already do that. Some missiles explode near their targets, and cause shrapnel damage, even if they don't hit it dead on.  

[Desert_Fox_Rommel]

Inquisitor Brock

They already do that. Some missiles explode near their targets, and cause shrapnel damage, even if they don't hit it dead on.

I agree with Brock I'm pretty sure they already do that.  

[Buki_Actual]

Desert_Fox_Rommel

Inquisitor Brock

They already do that. Some missiles explode near their targets, and cause shrapnel damage, even if they don't hit it dead on.

I agree with Brock I'm pretty sure they already do that.

Confirmed, yes they do.  

[Orkronos]

Sgt Buckner

Desert_Fox_Rommel

Inquisitor Brock

They already do that. Some missiles explode near their targets, and cause shrapnel damage, even if they don't hit it dead on.

I agree with Brock I'm pretty sure they already do that.

Confirmed, yes they do.

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