Re: [SG2] weapons

At 10:47 PM +0100 11/18/03, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
>
>As for Laserlight's comment about PDSs preventing indirect artillery 
>fire: *P*DS only destroys incoming rounds within about 20 meters 
>from the vehicle, so isn't very good at dealing with stand-off 
>target-seeking artillery rounds like BONUS or SADARM which fire from 
>200 meters away or more; and unless it has an extremely high rate of 
>fire it is vulnerable to being over-saturated by large numbers of 
>submunitions.
>
>However, *A*DS systems capable of destroying submunition carrier 
>rounds before they deploy their cargo are currently under 
>development :-/

Reality is starting to sound more like Hammer's Slammers with out the 
power guns.
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