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Lots of Operation Eldest Son vibes. MACVSOG really instilled primal terror into the VC with their handiwork, far more than even the B-52 flechette carpet bombings. To not know whether your AK is gonna turn into a crossbow pointed pointblank at your own forehead or not with every shot you fired REALLY fucked with the VC's ability to operate to their full potential for quite some time.
The Eldest Son rounds were actually a charge of polymer explosive, a chemically enhanced version of C4 or RDX that was able to be initiated to full detonation by a blasting cap small enough to fit into the primer of a 7.62 case, so the damage it did to an approximate 2 foot circle around the cartridge, including the enemy operator's head, was catastrophic.
The Eldest Son rounds were actually a charge of polymer explosive, a chemically enhanced version of C4 or RDX that was able to be initiated to full detonation by a blasting cap small enough to fit into the primer of a 7.62 case, so the damage it did to an approximate 2 foot circle around the cartridge, including the enemy operator's head, was catastrophic.
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Are you sure the primer wasn't the blasting cap? A magnum rifle primer is no joke. To the point where the only blasting caps I've gotten to play with were unimpressive by themselves.
Either an additionally amped up primer with double the amount of stipenate/fulminate, or a binary cap where initial primer sets off another layer of compound. The main thing they needed to do was generate enough of a shock/pressure spike inside the base of that cartridge and at enough speed to break apart enough chemical bonds in the main charge at once, ie, detonation. If the stuff was slime when they poured it in, like some explosives, and then hardened solid and allowed the primer's energy to build up to the needed level, a supercharged magnum primer could be enough by itself.
