Re: [FT]Sensors and Sensibility[LONG]

At 10:55 AM -0700 6/26/01, David Griffin wrote:
>--- Bif Smith <bif@bifsmith.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>...
>>  The problem with using fighters would be the fact
>>  unless you are going to
>>  hold down the speed of your ships to less than 24
>>  MU, your ships are going
>>  to outrun your fighters...
>
>In threat areas my ships are seldom going 24mu.
>Not even in potential threat areas. Of course
>there are no rules to equip fighters with sensors
>though you might argue that they have basic
>sensors just in their normal state.

Don't confuse relative with absolute velocity. Two task forces moving 
at 50mu could in relation to each other have very low relative 
velocities....

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