Re: Mines

At 09:31 AM 8/16/99 +0100, you wrote:
>If mines are detonation lasers they might ignore shields - remember
that
>beams are asumed to be particle beams.
>However that is just nit-picking. Though it does make mines nastier, a
>beam that ignores screens.
>
>I rather like the captor mine style. The mine fires a missile at the
>ship.
>
>Maybe there is room for both, but that leads to a SFB style book
keeping
>nightmare.

There are speculative designs out there for nuclear warheads that have
something of a 'shaped charge'.  Originally envisioned for taking out
hardened sites like missile silos, they might be useful in space, too.
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