Re: [GZG] Tanker Pods

I would just rule that they use a standard mount and pod specifications
so any pod capable ship can carry them. An SF equivalent of ISO
containers and container ships so I would expect to see the same pods
mounted on plain vanilla merchantmen as well as auxiliaries. I have an
old Clipper kicking around somewhere, one of the RAFM (?) Traveller
ships, I wonder if it would work as a merchant? Her sister ship ended up
with a scratch built spine and pods made from scored lengths of brass
tubing.

As a good example but mostly just out of curiosity does anyone happen to
know if Soviet Russian used the ISO container specifications as well? I
think their aircraft bomb attachment points might have been compatible
but I cannot remember. I thought this was odd at the time so rather
suspect it is wrong but if ancient stocks of Korean War (and older)
bombs could be used in Vietnam (nearly casing the loss of a fission
powered carrier) the standard connectors must be pretty old. I think the
Black Buck raid on the Falklands used elderly bombs as well that turned
out not to be so obsolete after all.

Michael

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