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To: Zeneta
I don't know. There is this fictional show on Starz, called "Da Vinci's Demons" about a fictional version of young Leonardo Da Vinci. The most recent episode had the Church and Pope worried about an invasion fleet of Turkish ships about to sack a Christian seaport city. So Leo gets the crazy idea to have his friends core the cannon balls to lighten them, then fill them with gunpowder and a wick. So they do all this overnight, load their cannons, light the wick and shortly after fire the cannons. Yeah, right! In real life, it probably took many years of experimentation before it actually worked.

Of course, you're probably don't mean a ball that explodes after landing on a target, but a shell that detonates when it strikes.

Wonder when some hobbyist will create self-guiding ammo that regular folks can make for themselves...

18 posted on 07/11/2014 8:41:47 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat
"...So Leo gets the crazy idea to have his friends core the cannon balls to lighten them, then fill them with gunpowder and a wick. ..."


21 posted on 07/11/2014 9:48:30 PM PDT by BlueDragon
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To: roadcat

sections of chain, heated red hot, fired from a cannon, managed to take out a LOT of sailing ships rigging and set them on fire!


26 posted on 07/12/2014 11:46:52 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: roadcat
Wonder when some hobbyist will create self-guiding ammo that regular folks can make for themselves...

I'd imagine it IS available; If one considers an RC model plane as ammo; that is.

The Walleye technology is extremely simple to implement.

27 posted on 07/12/2014 11:49:01 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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