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Re: Tank Traps for High Tech

From: "Tom Sullivan" <starkfist@h...>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 06:45:38 PDT
Subject: Re: Tank Traps for High Tech


>How about a fast acting rubber eating acid or enzyme cloud - eat away 
>the plenum skirts and then your ACV blows its fans on rocks and dirt 
>as it looses lift. Then it becomes a pillbox with a mobility kill. 
>If you make the skirts out of metal, they aren't flexible enough to 
>work well (I think). 
>
>Tom.  
> 
You  know, that's what I would think, too.  Drake says otherwise--his 
Hovertanks use metal skirts, because rubber ones cannot support them 
when they are at rest.	On the other hand, he does admit (cheerfully) 
that he is no physicist, so he could certainly be wrong.

Tom Sullivan
"They float 'cross the ground with the greatest of ease/Those daring 
young men in their combat machines..."

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