Re: [GZG] Tanker Pods

["Michael R. Blair" <pellinoire@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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