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Re: Battle blimps

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t...
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:29:17 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: Battle blimps

Beth.Fulton@csiro.au schrieb:
> > And the blimp would be rather more
> > vulnerable than a 747 or A380 armed with an equivalent 
> laser. 
> 
> Why?

- It's a bigger target
- It's slower and less maneuvrable
- The blimp can't be armoured because it has to be light
- Holes will (most likely) degrade it's performance more than an
equivalent hole on a jet - this depends on a fair amount of assumptions
about their construction, however.

Greetings
Karl Heinz

PS. about the to-be-released Hindenburg mini. My comments about the
size were based on the AIRCRAFT mini-kit box. If they do it in the ship
mini-kit range, it could be up to about 20 cm long or roughly 1:1200


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