Re: New firearms technology

From: "Noel Weer" <nsweer@ice.net>

> So this is legitimate?
> My first response on seeing something that is this extreme published
in 
> the month of April is to believe that it is part of the publishing 
> industry's love affair with April Fool's Day.

Yep, legit.
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Subject: Re: Bridge Crew
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 19:56:44 +1100
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> Last time I played it was at Cancon '98, where we gamed out the
Seabring
> Picket destruction from Honor Harrington.  It was good fun.

I played it YEARS ago at a Computer Swap Meet of all places, and played
a
scenario where we were Kli - err, Xingons attacking a human convoy. We
came
in fast cloaked, but the bigger of the two escorts detected us and
turned to
meet. He came at us at high speed, and everyone was waiting for me to
blink
and turn - which I didn't. Just put pedal to the metal. Of course what
they
forgot that in this game it takes TIME for the ships to slow and turn
around... the big ship went screaming past, then the GM realised his
error
and started his turn. By the time he got the big escort heading the
right
way again, I was taking apart the convoy.

Of course, I made my mistake then and hung around for too long, instead
of
hitting and running... so the big escort took me to pieces. :(

Great game though, really captured the atmosphere, especially with 6 or
so
people manning the bridge (there was me, my first officer <grin> who
actually knew the game, and 4 crew.).

Anyone on this list, if you've got enough friends with PCs and network
links, I suggest you try it out.

JS
Jeremy Sadler
stargrunt.com webmaster
http://www.stargrunt.com
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From: "Owen Glover" <oglover@bigpond.net.au>
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Subject: RE: Help finding modern army TO&E?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 19:57:10 +1100
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Andy,

This is a link to the SOTCW; I don't think this web page is updated
further
but a really good source still!

http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~aaron/mod_org.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> [mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Andy Cowell
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> Subject: Help finding modern army TO&E?
>
>
>
> Anybody know of any examples on the net of any modern army (esp. US)
> TO&E?
>
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Subject: Re: New firearms technology
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At 07:13 PM 12/06/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>From: <jfoster@kansas.net>
>
>> Another possible problem: with a totally electronic firing system,
>wouldn't the
>> weapon be highly succeptible to gang-firing if a current was induced
in
>the
>> firing mechanism? A theatre-wide EMP pulse could wreak havoc, as
could
>carrying
>> a personal weapon too near a high-current line or high-frequency
radio
>source,
>> potentially.
>
>Any EMP big enough to cause this would most likely set off explosives
>anyway.
>Voids in propellants and warheads can cause sparks. Most Unpleasant.
This
>is why there are signs warning people to switch off radio transmitters
near
>anywhere doing blasting.
>
>BUT...
>Military vessels and aircraft are pretty good EMP emitters in their own
>right.
>Get too close to the nose of an EA-6E and you're cooked.

My father is in the Navy, and one of his Marine friends favorite stories
was how they used to use the target-illumination radar from a HAWK
battery
to cook birds in flight.  Marines.  What can you say?
Brian Thomas
"Monkey Hate Clean"
Lawrence, KS