What is the actual blast radius of a mortar explosion? When you

>>34937858
>what is shrapnel

Realistic blast radius is like ~80 ft, but shrapnel can kill out to 500 no trouble.

>>34937858

What you can't see in videos are the hundreds of little shrapnel pieces flying away from the explosion, which can kill a man standing about a hundred feet away.

>>34937858
The dangerous over-pressure falls extremely rapidly with distance. The 1.22 pounds of TNT in a M43A1 81mm mortar round would not be dangerous at 8 yards in a unconfined environment, but the shrapnel generated is dangerous at more then 25 yards.

It's not the boom that kills you, it's the thing the boom accelerated.

>>34937858
shrapnels and debris and whatever pointy shit that flies at high velocity will shatter your bones and cut through your meat and your arteries will be ruptured leading to a loss of blood in your organs and when the bloodflow to your brain is interrupted you lose consciousness and you DIE

but you can also be caught in a fire because shit catches fire too and you'll die asphyxiated, burns and boiling blood and ammo exploding are just a bonus

>>34937858
First off, keep in mind there's a lot of kinds of mortars. The common bores are 60mm, 81mm, and 120mm.

Second, you've got overpressure and shrapnel. Overpressure is basically a solid sphere and is perfectly lethal within a certain range. However, it's got a very low effective radius due to the inverse squared law.

Shrapnel goes out much further than overpressure but it's unpredictable and varies between birdshot and buckshot levels of damaged.

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>>34937858
Blast radius comparison between Saab mapam mortar munition and some random yugoimport-made munition

>>34937858
If you're within a 25m radius of the explosion of even a small mortar like a 60mm, and don't have adequate cover or armor, you're gonna get fucked up and most like killed. You can still be dinged by a random piece of shrapnel a few hundred meters out I'm sure

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>>34942626
>Sir Edmund Hillary Shrapnel

>shrapnel this shrapnel that
>when the correct term is fragmentation
>coming from the board that autisms over clips and magazines

Well no shit any weapon can be outrun if you know where it's going to hit

But you don't

>>34942887
Shrapnel's name was Henry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Shrapnel

>>34942948
Uhhhh....Nooo it's actually scrap metal sweetie

>>34942959
I heard you could hear mortar shells coming, whistling like bombs in the bugs bunny cartoonies.

>>34937858
25 meters

>>34937858
120mm? 2m for dead 5m for possible ear drum rapture.
60mm? 1m, 2.5m

>>34940140
>However, it's got a very low effective radius due to the inverse squared law.
Blast falls of according to inverse cube law.

>>34943455
Should be inverse square, since it's being attenuated over an area, not a volume.
Got a citation for inverse cube, though? Would be fascinating to read if it is that way.

>>34943913
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/481144.pdf

20m wounding effect radius for 60mm, 40m for 81/82mm, 100m for 120m.

Cut them in half for kill radius. Well made prefragmented shells can increase effect radii by 50-100%.

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>>34937858
>When you see them on video it looks like something that can easily be outran

> Running around on the battlefield.