Re: Some FT rules ideas(Longish)

The "loitering" HARM is the Tacit Rainbow. It's got a small jet turbine
in it,
(same as the Cruise missle) once it's booster burns out it switches to
jet
mode. IIRC, during the Persian Gulf one actually played tag with an
Iraqie
mobile radar, the Iraqies turned the radar off every time the missle
went
inbound, then turned it back on expecting the missle to have flown
by....... I
was told the missle was circling the radar unit at about 1/2 mile when a
pair
of F-16's rolled in and bombed the site just to put it out of thier
misery.

As for using the same idea in space, it wouldn't work, fuel and power
requirements would push the thing into being at least the size of a
fighter,
probably bigger, and cruiseing within range of a ships defenses would
make it
an easy kill.

Speaking of fighters, how about giving them the equivilent of a needle
beam
attack against FireCons? This would represent fighters equiped with
HARMS
closing to range and surpressing the enemy fire control sensors.

comments?

Randy