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>>Roger Books wrote:
>> For those that have not heard of a gyrojet:
>> http://www.littlegun.be/arme%20americaine/a%20gyrojet%20gb.htm
>http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3l.html
>(scroll down to section that begins with
>"The good old MBA Gyrojet pistol is worth looking at.")
The Gyrojet pistol was a disaster and it was DOA (Dead on Arrival). Ammunition was expensive due to extremely tight tolerances for the rocket nozzles, the bullet was underpowered, and it wasn't all that accurate. The lack of recoil could be offset by having the rocket propellant shooting right back at you.
If you are in a spacesuit with some intelligence built in why not let the suit handle the recoil. Have the suit detect the recoil (have the suits user put the suit in recoil compensation mode?) and as your weapon recoils the suit will fire retro jets to counter the recoil. In this way standard weapons could be used and no special weapons are needed.
The M203 (M79 grenade launcher + M16 rifle) grenade was just a shotgun shell with an attitude. The advantage is that the warhead of this weapon could be anything you'd want. An AP round with a perpetrator that goes off on contact (explosive charge goes off on contact driving a high density perpetrator round into target) should be able to go through any suit armor. If you want a rocket round (as Gyrojet) then the warhead could fire the rocket after round leaves barrel.
Scott
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