Re: Tank Sizes

In a message dated 1/31/00 1:21:59 PM Central Standard Time, 
monty@arcadia.turner.com writes:

<< One area this has pushed things is the development of liquid
propellants 
 for the main gun. Thus you'd have a projectile that was inserted, close

 the breech, squirt a given volume or weight of propellant into the 
 chamber and *BOOM*. This would make resupply a bit odd in that you'd 
 transfer half of your ammo load via hose rather than by hand through
the 
 turret hatch. The big issue is the volatile nature of such a
propellant. 
  >>

Seems to cry out for a binary system - where you have two liquids or
gases 
that are NOT volatile until mixed.