RE: "Suited" Soldiers, was Re: [DS] Irregular NSF Figures

EXTREMELY STIFF HANDS TODAY, PLUS FORGOT TO SHIFT DOWN TO LOWER CASE!

SUBMARINE COMBAT!

ROCKET PROPELLED PROJECTILES, WITH SOLID OR  VARIOUS TYPES EXPLOSIVE
WARHEADS WOULD WORK QUITE WELL UNDER WATER . 

THUS THE  LONG TIME SCI-FI GYROJET, CONE OR BOLT FIRING SMALL ARMS AND
SQUAD SUPPORT WEAPONS WOULD BE USABLE.

THE SOVIETS ACTUALLY  DEVELOPED  A REPEATING, MAGAZINE FED UNDER WATER
SMALL ARM THAT SHOT HV "BOLTS" , IMR, ABOUT 6" LONG. 

BULLET, SOLID SHOT, OR FLECHETTE FIRING WEAPONS WOULD WORK AT SHORT
RANGES.

LASERS COULD BE  "TUNED", I AM TOLD, TO WORK VERY WELL UNDER WATER. 

LAUNCHED EXPLOSIVES (RPGS, MISSILES, OR THROWN GRENADES OR COMMAND
DETONATED CHARGES WOULD BE A DOUBLE EDGED  THREAT AT CERTAIN RANGES
UNDER WATER.

USE IN	A DOMED OR EVEN A SUBTERRANEAN COMPLEX WOULD BE RISKY.

FLAME THROWING WEAPONS MIGHT BE USEFUL, UNLESS THE OXYGEN CONTENT IS
100% OR EXTREMELY HIGH (OR OTHER EXPLOSIVE GAS FOR THAT MATTER)  

 FOR CLOSE COMBAT ASSORTED EDGED AND ROTARY EDGED WEAPONS ABLE TO SLICE
THROUGH  UNARMORED FLESH OR POWERED ARMORS WOULD BE USEFUL, TOO.

I REMEMBER SOME ONE , YEARS AGO, CAME UP WITH A POWERFUL SPRING LOADED
BLADE FOR PUNCHING THROUGH  HEAVY DIVING GEAR.

MAYBE A SHORT, BOWIE KNIFE SIZED REVOLVING  CYLINDER BANGSTICK? WHERE
THE CYLINDER IS ACTUALLY A RAPIDLY REPLACABLE AND DISCARDABLE  MAGAZINE. 

OR A COMBO BLADE AND REVOLVING BANGSTICK, SIMILIAR TO THE OLD ONE SHOT
ELGIN CUTLASS PISTOL OF THE 19TH CENTURY USN.

THE BEST ARMOR WOULD BE A MARINE VERSION OF THE NORMAL POWERED ARMOR,
WITH ITS OWN JET  PROPULSION SYSTEM.

HMMM. POSSIBLY WITH ITS OWN BUILT IN OBSCURATION DEVICE AND RESERVOIR,
TOO.

AND PROPER CAMOU FOR THOSE MARK I EYEBALL OCCASIONS.

MARK EYEBALL VISION WOULD BE EXTREMELY LIMITED IN A FIGHT AFTER IT
BEGINS, OR DO TO LOW OR NO LIGHT CONDITIONS (THE  BLOOD, DEBRIS, ETC),
SO SOME SORT OF ASSISTED VISION, DETECTION AND RANGING WOULD BE NEEDED.
DITTO FOR COMMS GEAR.

WOW! A NEED FOR THOSE JAR-JAR BENKS MINIATURES THAT ARE SCREAMING TO BE
MADE!

OOOOH!	OOOOOOH!  OOOOOOH!

LOOK OUT KLACKONS, MERTONS, NAUTILOIDS, AND GILLMEN!

THE HUMANS ARE COMING ! THE HUMANS ARE COMING !

DAWGIE