Re: Linnax railguns....

At 6:02 AM -0500 1/27/03, Laserlight wrote:
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>Somehow, a planetary defense weapon sticking up 100m into the air
>sounds like a sign reading "Bomb Me!"
>I'd make it look like a missile silo.	You shouldn't have to move the
>gun to aim it, just twitch the magnetic field in the last few meters
>of the track.

What he said...or you could gimbal the mount below the muzzle under 
ground. Terminally guided rounds would be pretty useful as well.

An additional measure would be a "fake" hill that was built up around 
the mobile platform ala the Shiva Guns.

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