Re: Hi-Tech Anti-Tank Weapons

At 04:34 PM 6/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>...  The ability to manipulate gravity for
>propulsion implies the ability to manipulate gravity as some sort of
>weapon; if nothing else, some sort of glorified mine.	(To take a page
>from David Weber; a mine that enhances the efficiency of a propulsion 
>gravity field in a localized area of the field.  Yeow.)  

"Yeow" indeed.	But I can't think which book it would be from.	Crusade
or
the Mutineer's Moon series perhaps?

>Or why not shoulder capable KE weapons, using gravity as the
accelerating
field?

To borrow another page from Weber, there are the shoulder launched
hyperkinetic missiles which use a baby versions of the gravity-based
sublight manuever drives in both Crusade and the Honor Harrington books.
In Crusade, they are "just" hyperkinetic.  In HH, they use a miniature
drive wedge which both accelerates the missile and subjects the target
(or
part of it) to several hundred gravities of shearing forces as it passes
by.  Even a near miss is deadly.

Jeff