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Something about explosives is the Relative Explosive Equivalency Factor.
GURPS calls this REF when you're figuring dice from boom. It's also another example of GURPS using real world numbers for things.
An M107 155mm HE shell can be loaded with 15.1 lb. of either good old fashioned TNT or Composition B.
Comp B has an REF of 1.4, making it the equivalent of 21.14 lb. of TNT.
An M795 round is filled with 20.1 lb. of either TNT or IMX-101.
IMX-101 has an REF of 1.62 making it the equivalent of 35.6 lb.
The M107 is constantly criticized for not having enough boom, but the supposedly superior M795, when loaded with TNT, has less than the M107 when loaded with Comp-B.
I have no information about when or why or how many rounds get loaded with TNT as opposed to the better explosives.
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