Re: Fw: Weapons for Newtonian based FTIII

>> big enough lump of rock and ice, take a running start around the
system
>> and sling it on a collision course.

>I suppose from that perspective the only defence would be proactive.
You'd have to go after the foe while they were still setting up to
launch. This would mean that sensors would have to be very good.
Whatever, it doesn't sound like it would be a lot of fun to play a side
that has to sit in one place and accept its fate when the other side got
around to delivering it.
 
   Has anyone REALLY figures out just how they would aim this Rock? All
modern, that is Beam & Missile systems employ continious feedback to
home in
their attacks. A Beam system employs a reference beam to lock in on the
target before releasing the major energy discharge that constitutes a
shot. A
missile weapon continiously updates its relative position during flight.
All
a station would have to do is eject 50 tons of garbage or use it's
attitude
jets to get a couple of rock diameters out of the path, and a miss is a
miss,
two feet or two  million feet. The only way would be to put a guidance
system
on the rock and a detonation system to turn it into highspeed gravel.
Gee!
that's beginning to sound like a regular missile doesn't it ?

P.S. All space stations need attitude adjustment systems or after the
3rd
hard dock the station would be spinning like a top!!!!

Rocks are planet killers pure and simple. It's the planetary gavity well
that
locks it into the final approach vector and holds it there despite
random
influences. 

Tom Hughes