Re: Deployment timings/lifespans
From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 06:40:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Deployment timings/lifespans
--- John Leary <john_t_leary@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 2175 deployment
> > (hence Gauss perhaps?). Maybe the next NSL weapon
> > deployment will be
> > Gauss.
> > ...
> > Interestingly, the UN has an ISW-82 (I think
> that's
> > it...),
> > suggesting its latest model designs are very
> recent.
> ...
> > Just something I'm mulling over. Thoughts?
>
> Have all these thing been defined?
> Just because one power has a later number on
> the issue rifle does not prove/infer higher tech.,
> it could be the same rifle concept issued X years
> later by the other power.
> It is also not necessarly true that 'all' units
> have the later issue weapon.
> What it really comes down to is: what do you want
> to be happening in your sector of the universe?
In the case of the FA-75, it is higher tech. Gauss
rather than caseless or binary liquid propulsion.
John
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