Re: Real Space Combat Help:

At 12:13 PM 4/10/97 +0000, Mike Wiken wrote:

>OK. Assume solid slug 1 kilo penetrators (bigger than necessary, but 
>a lot cheaper in mass and space than missiles) let's say your railgun 
>fires a salvo of 1000 penetrators in a cloud spaced 500 meters 
>apart in a spherical array. that's a thousand kilos of ordinance 
>(2200 pounds).
	Given that a target can maneuver in a very large threat cone on
the
order of several thousand meters per G maneuver, your 500 meter radius
cloud
does not guarrantee a hit at all...  You would have a better bet against
an
orbiting target given that his threat cone is a LOT smaller, but then do
you
want 1,000 rounds orbiting your planet where you might want to put
sattelites yourself...?
  Phil P.