Re: Gyrobombs

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> Gyrobombs!
>
> With sufficient materials tech, you can get more energy per mass in a
> spinning gyroscope than in any current chemical explosive. Combine
that
> with a fragmenting charge on the flywheel, and you get no explosion,
> but lots of very fast-moving fragments.
>
> Side effect: the fragments come out more or less in a disc, rather
than
> in a sphere. Depending on what you're doing, this can be a lot more
> efficient than a normal explosion. Great for bounding landmines, for
> example.

Main problem: the gyroscopic effects. Once the wheel has been spun up to
speed it will be a pig to control. I don't them useeable as missiles.
The
mine ideas is quite neat, still (and self.defusing over time)

Greetings