Re: I'm back

At 5:14 PM -0500 7/3/04, <warbeads@juno.com> wrote:
>
>Let's take a page from the 'non-existent'  sub launched SAM shall we?

Problem is that when you unmask, you're toast to 
the other weapons. Note the many users of the 
past developed systems.

>The weapon is ejected from the tube with compressed air/gas, a rocket
>ignites inside the 'bubble' and accelerates it towards the surface near
>the target where it pops up, seeks and finds the target and then either
>acts as an ASM or drops a torpedo like weapon that accelerates under
the
>vehicle and explodes up (since armor is thinner underneath (see mine
>rules) and scores a kill.

Yeah, I can see that, but I can also see a small 
fast Grav vehicle being able to throw some rather 
crazy maenuvers out and with PDS systems very 
small, it'll be very hard for the sub to deal 
with these buggers. Think of them as small, 
armored Helos that are right on the surface and 
will be on you before you can spit once a sub has 
unmasked. The best way to deal with them will be 
a remote top attack munition that'll have to get 
some altitude and deployed by something pretty 
large.

>  But how would the
>>tanks deal with the sub? Homing torps once they
>>have a localized location? Sono-buoys seem the
>>ideal means of checking for the craft.
>
>Grav/GEV vehicles would seem like very low flying aircraft/helicopters.

Low, fast and armored more than a typical helo with out easy to injure
blades.

I'll assume helo's will retain similar loiter 
time as the GRAVs due to the commonality of power 
plants on both platforms. The one saving grace is 
that the sub's will have to be hit with some kind 
of smart/brilliant munition it won't work to try 
to nail them with KE weapons as it would a 
surface craft.

Anyone see a problem for Future navy vessels in a 
GRAV environment up on the littorial? Its one 
thing to nail a bunch of tanks on a bluff when 
the blunder into your Direct observed fire zone. 
Its another thing when they can zip out across 
the surf zone, get inside your major weapon's 
reach so to speak and make you rely on large 
radar/laser guided PDS. Ships with a PDS down 
will be lunch meat for fast tanks out in the 
close and dirty, but anything with a PDS (CWIS, 
Goalkeeper, etc) will be able to keep them beat 
back unless they can overwhelm it.
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