Re: Real Space Combat Help:

Michael Brown writes:
@:) You wrote:

@:) ... Your typical AP shell hits a tank at (somebody help here), I'm
@:) guessing in the low 1000's of miles per hour.  Mach 2 or 3 or
@:) so....
@:) 
@:) Typical muzzle velocities for APDS (Armor Piercing, Discrding
@:) Sabot) start @ 2000m/sec

  = 7200 kph.  Or about 4500 mph.  Ok, so it's better than mach 3 but
it's still pretty slow for space.

-joachim