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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 03:07:31 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   Hey guys look it's a small, under the radar sign of the collapse

   Somewhere out there someone has cottoned to the fact newly made electrical stations might need to tank some nasty hits ("lol there crazy thats never gunna happen")

   • fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 03:10:32 JST fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot latest project i was attached to had a requirement that electrical distribution system be resistant to 7.62mm M80 Ball ammunition from 50 yards away
     
     make of that what you will
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 03:13:12 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @professionalbigot69 I used to work in that range and talk to a lot of the glowniggers when they'd show up to do their quarterlies. There were only a few threats that got them worried, and I remember them making a big to-do about those yokels shooting up some transformers

     Every time they'd bring it up all excited, because having a new THREAT™ means there're promotions and cushy jobs up for grabs, asking them "what if it was meth heads just idly shooting at the big steel stuff for fun?" was always met with "no, no, this team was professional. Either AQ or chechens, we're prettty sure"

     Except they never had another attack and there was zero indication it was anything BUT crackheads. Like so much glowniggardry it was just old men playing spy, excited to see crazy cool top secret stuff, imagining a bond villain around every corner

   • Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 03:52:23 JST Frondeur

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot The chad Roman army corp of engineers building a double wall around Alesia vs the beta American civil engineer not considering mortar fire...
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   • fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 03:53:25 JST fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot crackheads were too busy loitering by the local fried chicken eateries to wander anywhere near the jobsite
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   • db (db@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 04:01:14 JST db

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     • WilhelmIII
     @WilhelmIII @WashedOutGundamPilot @professionalbigot69 i think burying them in a vauly introduces the problem of heat removal. now your 308 sniper is looking to disable an exhaust fan or a condenser. it might be easy to bury them completely and let them burn themselves out. the concrete wall thing, or just building dirt up around it, works.
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   • db (db@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 04:01:15 JST db

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     @WilhelmIII @WashedOutGundamPilot @professionalbigot69 if an army wanted to destroy it, they would. how thick would the steal need to be? not to last forever, but to survive an assualt from a guy with an ar10 taking his ten shots and giving up. 3/8"?
   • WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 04:01:15 JST WilhelmIII

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     The thickness of the steel matters but so does the hardness. And it's a tradeoff.
     
     Modern Level IV body armor are either ceramic, which is good for one shot per location, or AR500 steel, which can handle multiple shots in the same place.
     
     The ceramic defeats the incoming energy by cracking. The steel defeats it by rebounding.
     
     The problem with the steel, especially very hard steel is that when it bows inward bits of it will flake off and continue in the direction of the bullet vector. That sucks if that's in your flesh, likewise into a large electrical device. Those little flecks are called spall and are very bad news.
     
     In body armor we defeat that by using a thick polymer liner to coat the outside of the steel. The plastic traps the bits of metal.
     
     You could do the same to an electrical substation, but there are other engineering problems to consider, like heat and conductivity.
     
     So, to sorta answer your question, 1/2" of hardened steel covered inside and out with Line-X would probably do the trick.
     
     But that assumes I won't just go down to my local gun store and come back with a Serbu in .50cal.
     
     If they are serious they'll start burying them or at least surrounding them with a tall earthen berm.
   • db (db@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 04:01:16 JST db

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     @professionalbigot69 @WashedOutGundamPilot what kind of protection does the system need to resist 308? quarter inch steel plating?
   • WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 04:01:16 JST WilhelmIII

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     Black tip will make a mess of 1/4" and spall on the inside.
     
     AR500 steel and a Kevlar liner would work, but the cost would be pretty high.