Re: OFFICIAL - GZG: Vacuum and zero/low gravity combat…?

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 07:47:08PM +0000, Jon Tuffley wrote:
>So specialised "vacuum grenades" - hand or launched - would be
optimised for maximum frag effect, possibly with a smaller explosive
charge packed around with more, but smaller, fragments - designed to
cause multiple suit punctures (harder to patch several small holes in
time…) rather than necessarily to inflict major shrapnel wounds on the
person…..

Or, ideally, hitting the target dead-on and firing an AP jet right
through his suit. Give it a bit of smarts and some cold-gas jets for
manoeuvre, and it becomes something each squaddie can carry a few of.
Lob it out over the enemy (x6 throwing distance on the Moon) and
they'll remember why they ought to have put a roof on their bunker.

R