Re: Ship Prefix's

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. 

Thank God 'panzer' is an appropriate slang term.  (My German is from a
two
week trip to West Germany in 1987.  Schwebepanzerkampfwagen?  Gah.  (8-)
)

J.

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