Spinal Mounts (was: RE: OUDF - Railguns??)

More of a background thing, I guess.  Nearly everyone has the UN's R&D
section at least 1 step ahead of the big 4 (variously due to
influence/wealth/choose your own reason).  
As none of the majors use spinal mounts (novacannon/waveguns don't count
for
this), it seemed like the natural party to have them; also the fact that
the
UN SDN reminds everyone of the EA Excaliber ;-)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Taylor [SMTP:charles.taylor@cableol.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 9:55 AM
> 
> Wandering slighly off topic, when the UNSC ships came out, a lot of
> people looked at them and said 'spinal mount' - however, IIRC, the
> Islamic Federation Battleship looks like most of the front end of the
> ship is 4 (or more) huge cannon - but AFAIK no-one has suggested that
it
> also mounts a spinal mount weapon - I wonder why?
>