Contemporary use for these is in an explosive shell containing many referred to as an “anti-personnel round”. We have found that detonating this shell in the air over your target is most effective, a tactic known as “airburst”. The Tomahawk missile is an airburst weapon.
A fitting epitaph for the nature of modern weaponry and warfare, I think.
These two frames capture the same scene, separated by the blink of an eye.
Tomahawk missile detonates above a test target, 1986.
When the Germans implemented flechettes during WW1, they engraved their darts, “invented in France” on one side, and “manufactured in Germany” on the other.
@goodbraincell @klhurley2 @abernothing If 2 was the identity of our arithmetic system, for example, we would always count in 2s and 4 would be a prime number, 6 yes, 8 no, 10 yes, etc. Odd numbers wouldn’t be integers if identity was 2 so no dividing by them. It’d effectively be the same system, just look different.
@goodbraincell @klhurley2 @abernothing 1 is the assumed identity for math systems; it’s kind of an exception. It is, by definition, not technically a prime because it’s the base unit. It’s kinda unfair to say it is because for any other number to make sense as a “prime” or “not prime”, identity has to be established.
@56blackcat I say this because this thread and the ones it led me to are a cluttered fucking mess of people playing expert on matters which are beside the point.