HFQ Offical Snippet #18

fleadermouse wrote:I think we are most likely looking at TNT here not dynamite. The detonation velocity is wrong for dynamite. Standard dynamite is 40% nitro and it detonates at about 15-16,000 fps. Extra dynamite is 60% nitro and detonates at about 19,000 fps. TNT detonates at 22,600fps which fits very nicely with the text.

Secondly, TNT makes a good shell bursting charge dynamite does not.

finally TNT can be formed into shapes like the text indicated. dynamite is nitroglycerin soaked clay (DE) that is packed into cardboard tubes.

Also RDX The active component in C4 detonates at about 29,000 fps which probably disqualifies it from consideration.

From snippet #16:

Lieutenant Ahrnahld Bryahnsyn stopped rubbing his hands together in a vain attempt to convince them they were warm and looked up, his expression baleful as he tried to identify the anonymous voice. It sounded like Corporal Kaillyt, who damned well ought to know better than to say something like that without identifying who was speaking.

That was his first thought. The second thought was that as reports went, it was a pretty piss poor excuse.

“Who said that?” Bryahnsyn snapped. “And what the hell are you talking about? What’s ‘what’ and where did you see it?”

“Uh, sorry, Sir.” Yes, it was Kaillyt. “It was me. And I don’t know what it was. Something moved down there in the water — moved upstream, not down.”

From snippet #18:

“That’s what they say, Sir. And I’m ready to take the word of anyone with big enough balls to even try setting them, myself. And the lieutenant in charge — a Lieutenant—” he glanced at the note in his hand, turning it to catch the lamplight “— Bryahnsyn, it says — lit all the fuses right on the dot at five-thirty.”

Peter2 wrote:Hang on a minute . . .

From snippet #16:

Lieutenant Ahrnahld Bryahnsyn stopped rubbing his hands together in a vain attempt to convince them they were warm and looked up, his expression baleful as he tried to identify the anonymous voice. It sounded like Corporal Kaillyt, who damned well ought to know better than to say something like that without identifying who was speaking.

That was his first thought. The second thought was that as reports went, it was a pretty piss poor excuse.

“Who said that?” Bryahnsyn snapped. “And what the hell are you talking about? What’s ‘what’ and where did you see it?”

“Uh, sorry, Sir.” Yes, it was Kaillyt. “It was me. And I don’t know what it was. Something moved down there in the water — moved upstream, not down.”

And now . . .

From snippet #18:

“That’s what they say, Sir. And I’m ready to take the word of anyone with big enough balls to even try setting them, myself. And the lieutenant in charge — a Lieutenant—” he glanced at the note in his hand, turning it to catch the lamplight “— Bryahnsyn, it says — lit all the fuses right on the dot at five-thirty.”

Have I got my wires crossed, or do we have two "Lieutenant Bryansyn"s – one on each side?

phillies wrote:

Peter2 wrote:Hang on a minute . . .

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Have I got my wires crossed, or do we have two "Lieutenant Bryansyn"s – one on each side?

You clearly have two of them, but not for very long, as one of them is about to encounter the ker-blammo!

Peter2 wrote:Hang on a minute . . .

From snippet #16:

Lieutenant Ahrnahld Bryahnsyn stopped rubbing his hands together in a vain attempt to convince them they were warm and looked up, his expression baleful as he tried to identify the anonymous voice. It sounded like Corporal Kaillyt, who damned well ought to know better than to say something like that without identifying who was speaking.

That was his first thought. The second thought was that as reports went, it was a pretty piss poor excuse.

“Who said that?” Bryahnsyn snapped. “And what the hell are you talking about? What’s ‘what’ and where did you see it?”

“Uh, sorry, Sir.” Yes, it was Kaillyt. “It was me. And I don’t know what it was. Something moved down there in the water — moved upstream, not down.”

And now . . .

From snippet #18:

“That’s what they say, Sir. And I’m ready to take the word of anyone with big enough balls to even try setting them, myself. And the lieutenant in charge — a Lieutenant—” he glanced at the note in his hand, turning it to catch the lamplight “— Bryahnsyn, it says — lit all the fuses right on the dot at five-thirty.”

Have I got my wires crossed, or do we have two "Lieutenant Bryansyn"s – one on each side?

fleadermouse wrote:I think we are most likely looking at TNT here not dynamite. The detonation velocity is wrong for dynamite. Standard dynamite is 40% nitro and it detonates at about 15-16,000 fps. Extra dynamite is 60% nitro and detonates at about 19,000 fps. TNT detonates at 22,600fps which fits very nicely with the text.

Secondly, TNT makes a good shell bursting charge dynamite does not.

finally TNT can be formed into shapes like the text indicated. dynamite is nitroglycerin soaked clay (DE) that is packed into cardboard tubes.

Also RDX The active component in C4 detonates at about 29,000 fps which probably disqualifies it from consideration.

gcomeau wrote:

fleadermouse wrote:I think we are most likely looking at TNT here not dynamite. The detonation velocity is wrong for dynamite. Standard dynamite is 40% nitro and it detonates at about 15-16,000 fps. Extra dynamite is 60% nitro and detonates at about 19,000 fps. TNT detonates at 22,600fps which fits very nicely with the text.

Secondly, TNT makes a good shell bursting charge dynamite does not.

finally TNT can be formed into shapes like the text indicated. dynamite is nitroglycerin soaked clay (DE) that is packed into cardboard tubes.

Also RDX The active component in C4 detonates at about 29,000 fps which probably disqualifies it from consideration.

I'd buy all that...


I'm just left feeling curious... how are these guys measuring detonation velocities of over 20,000 fps without things like high speed cameras? (I mean, I know Merlin could tell them, but that would probably raise questions among then uninitiated how exactly he knows that...hard to argue "Seijin vision" for that one...)

fallsfromtrees wrote:
We have already been down this road - since the piece you quote from snippet 18 was from mini snippet 2, and the LT who should have been making the report is named Hahrlys. My current thinking is typo to be corrected during proofing.