Re: [tlug] [OT][WAY OT] Perhaps of intereste to Sci Fi Fans:

[Brett Robson <tlug@example.com>]

burlingk@example.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brett Robson
> > Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 10:54 AM
> >     
> > The US Navy still uses gunpowder? (>.<)
>
> Every Navy does.  If it is not a missile, it is gunpowder.
> How do you think they fling the large shells that only go
> a couple hundred yards?  Currently, Short range == Gunpowder.
> ^^  We are making technilogical strides, but most of those
> strides of late have been in video game technology, not weapons. :P
>
>   

I wasn't a gunner but it's my understanding that modern guns use 
nitro-cellulose, nitro-glycerine or other liquid based propellants, 
gunpowder being pre world war one era.

B