Re: Near Future Rules Draft is up!

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Ludo Toen wrote:
> Just one thought, why would autocannon rounds have an explosive
filler?
> A massive
> object that strikes the target will do a lot more damage than a
similar
> one that
> gets broken into small fragments. Not to mention that some of these
> fragments will come back at you.
> (exactly why aircraft don't fire self destroying cannon rounds, they
> would suck the fragments into their own air intakes)

	Your probably right about the warhead.	I'm thinking more of the

delivery system.  Because conventional firearms woundn't operate in a 
vaccum, these cannon rounds are designed to be more like mini-rockets 
than gun-powdered driven bullets.  The cannon is kind of a launch tube 
with a rapid fire action.  Since the fuel and oxygen source for the 
autocannon round if very volitile, it can blow up real good if you hit
them 
jjjuuuusssssttt right.	
	Besides, I want near future space combat to be really dangerous.

Later,
Mark A. Siefert
	
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