CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin July 22, 2014 18:16:00
And sort of penetrate the aircraft and then explode. it's much more effective for these type of weapons to come into proximity, in this case, 50 to 15 meters away from the aircraft and then detonate. the warhead will fragment into hundreds of smaller fragments about the size of dimes or quarters and at that point it is like a shotgun effect. if you think of the spreading out of a cloud of fragments. obviously each one of those fragments is traveling at incredible speeds and obviously do significant damage when they impact an aircraft with all of the pressures from the altitude as well as the b...
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