Re: Ship Prefix's

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Allan Goodall wrote:

> I seem to remember (as a kid, for a story I was writing) deducing that
> "hovertank" in German would be "schwebepanzer" or (more accurately)
> "schwebepanzerkampfwagen". I'd imagine that the NSL would use this
term for
> their GEVs. 

GDW's (when it existed) Traveller 2300 used "Luftkissenpanzer". With my 
limited knowledge of German, I think it means "air cushion panzer",
which 
would be the correct term in *Finnish*. Now, many technical terms come
to 
Finnish from German, so it sounds logical to me.

Someone who actually speaks German might want to correct me.

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