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

On 2 Feb 2016, at 19:59, Michael Brown <mwsaber6@msn.com> wrote:

> Great thread, all kinds of folks are peaking out from the woodwork

Yep, getting some good responses - we should do more of this!  ;-)

Jon (GZG)

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> Michael Brown
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> > Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 19:49:52 +0000
> > From: roger@firedrake.org
> > To: gzg@firedrake.org
> > Subject: Re: OFFICIAL - GZG: Vacuum and zero/low gravity combat…?
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> > 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…..
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> > 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.
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