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Wyrmalla wrote:Bolters. They work under the principles of gyrojet weaponary-each round's self propelled-, yet they have ejecting ports and shell casings.¬¬
I though they worked like a Javalin missile (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdRnY-TUb4&feature=related) at the start as in it has a small charge that will propell it to say 20ft effectively, but ussually the gyrojet kicked in before that so the actual gyrojet may be caseless but the primer charge isn't
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Booster charge is to get the missile or rocket like with the RPG-7 safety away from the launcher before the main charge ignites. But with bolter shells hard to comprehend the logic to their design other then skull raping the keep it simple, stupid rule.
IMO, as far as my teeny military knowledge and knowledge of bolters go, it seems it works like a mini-RPG, which explodes once it enters someone, not on impact.
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Well bolter shells having casing actually is better than gyrojet, gyrojet is inaccurate because it has low muzzle velocity having a shell helps propel it out of the barrel at speed then the gyrojet just adds to that speed