Re: [GZG] Armoured utility vehicles and IEDs in SG/DS

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st off, equating the energy/heat exchange system of a vessel vs that of
a compact vehicles seem a little less than applicable here.

Also, I imagine that grav tanks don't spend all that much time in the
air. This would make them unnecesarily visible and vulnerable to more
direct attack. I imagine they would make good use of pop-up attacks and
similar attacks as modern day attack helicopters.

I am not saying that grav mines don't have a place in some universes,
they just seem overly complicated for something that could be done
without all the wizzbang tech.

-Eli

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Bell 
  To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:06 PM
  Subject: Re: [GZG] Armoured utility vehicles and IEDs in SG/DS

  On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Eli Arndt <emu2020@comcast.net>
wrote:

    It seems to me, that using grav tech in a mine is an overly complex
and
    expensive way to do a job that other tech could do just as easily.
What
    would a gravitic mine due other than give you a mobility kill
against a grav
    vehicle.

    It would be just as easy and likely cheaper, to use skeet mines with
engine
    noise-seeking, hyper-penetrating projectiles or something else.

  This depends on the setting.	In Honorverse, grav  drives and  their
requisite acceleration compensators  allow you	to dump waste heat
directly into hyperspace.  Either that, or  their  fusion energy
conversion efficiencies exceed 99.99%.	Whichever is the case, there is
no requirement for an especially vulnerable spot on the hull to allow
for cooling.

  Sometimes, a mobility kill on a grav vehicle isn't just a mobility
kill.  Killing the grav drive of a landing starship 10 metres above the
field may prevent it ever lifting off, again.  Getting a grav vehicle to
hit the ground, at speed, will do more damage than many kinds of
penetrating hit.  I have been told that even the mighty M1 Abrams will
have its front stove in and may suffer a driver fatality if it hits the
trunk of a foot thick, still living tree.

  Ground vehicles and hovercraft do not have as far to fall and may not
be going as fast.  The threat of grav mines will either limit the speed
of a grav force, or drive it up above the mines to where it cannot as
readily hide.

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