RE: Starship Troopers: I've got a wonderful Grinchy Idea...

Hmmm, by the same token and chain of thought - wouldn't claymores be
rather in-effective against burrowing targets?	Claymores are aimed out
not down.

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>From:	Stuart Ford[SMTP:stuart@mag.com]
>Sent:	Wednesday, November 12, 1997 7:50 PM
>To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>Subject:	Re: Starship Troopers: I've got a wonderful Grinchy
Idea...
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><<What I want to know is why send youngsters to die armed with weapons
>that obviously had little effect on the bugs.	And hadn't anyone
>given any thought to a proper perimeter defense (claymores would have
>been extremely effective it seems to me!!)  - the director and
>the producers obviously avoided having any military personnel as
>advisors - didn't want to sully their "vision" of the project!!
>
>KR>>
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