Armoured Combat Draft notes:Missile Weapon Standards
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Changes to Chapter 10 - Missile Weapon Standards
- 10.3.8 in Arrows and bolts
- Was
- Blunts must be secured using a strip of good quality 13mm-wide electrical or fibre tape wound down around the sides of the blunt for at least 13mm, and then up onto the shaft of the arrow for 25mm as per figure 10.1. Blunts must be firmly secured to the shaft so that they cannot come off on impact or if the shaft is broken. To allow inspection of possible punch-through the face of the blunt must not be covered.
- Now
- Blunts must be firmly secured to the shaft by good quality electrical or fibre tape so that they cannot come off on impact or if the shaft is broken. To allow inspection of possible punch-through, the face of the blunt must not be covered.
- Functional change
- Removed specification for width of tape
- Reason
- As long as the tape is sufficient to keep the head on, the width of the tape used is irrelevant. Often not followed (nor checked).
- For notes section
- November 2023 - The requirement for tape used to secure blunts to be exactly 13mm wide has been removed. As long as the tape is suffcient to keep the blunt on the shaft securely, you can use other width tape.